chutzpah
noun/ˈxʊtspə/, /ˈhʊtspə/
/ˈxʊtspə/, /ˈhʊtspə/
[uncountable] (often approving)- behaviour, or a person’s attitude, that offends or shocks people but is so confident that they may feel forced to admire it synonym nerveTopics Personal qualitiesc2Word Originlate 19th cent.: Yiddish, from Aramaic ḥu ṣpā.
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