单词 | chutzpah |
释义 | chutzpahn. colloquial (originally in Jewish usage). 1. An impudent act; an impertinence; an affront. Now rare.The exact meaning in quot. 1853 is uncertain; chootspers could refer to impudent people rather than impudent acts. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] > instance or piece of insolencea1492 insolency1591 impertinency1620 impertinence1622 impudency1624 chutzpah1853 brazenry1868 impudence1885 1853 Poster in N. Ausubel Pictorial Hist. Jewish People (1953) 186/2 No Chootspers Allowed. 1875 A. Funk tr. I. N. Lichtenberg in Young Israel June 344 ‘What a Hutzpe,’ thought Cuppel, ‘to call me son; I could be his father.’ 1887 Menorah Oct. 297 It is a ‘Hutzpa’..that such a man should speak in public, and should publish ‘for the instruction of the public’, his unripe trash on evolution and the like. 1958 B. Malamud Magic Barrel 20 ‘That's a helluva chuzpah,’ said Gruber. 1980 Jewish Chron. 24 Oct. 39/4 Two anonymous telephone calls which say that it is a Basha and a chutzpa that we are arranging the concert. 2. Brazen impudence, gall, audacity; brash self-confidence.In later use frequently with approving connotation. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [noun] hardiessec1300 boldness1377 malapertness?a1439 over-boldnessc1450 insolencya1513 protervitya1527 impudency1529 sauce malapert1529 petulancy1537 procacitya1538 audacity1545 sauceliness1552 forehead1564 hardihead1579 hardihood1594 outfacing1598 audaciousness1599 impudentness1599 petulancea1600 impertinency1609 impertinence1612 impudencea1616 procacya1620 affrontedness1640 brow1642 front1653 insolence1668 affrontery1679 assurance1699 effrontery1715 affrontiveness1721 swagger1725 imperence1765 cheek1823 sassiness1834 cheekiness1838 pawk1855 gall1882 chutzpah1886 face1890 mouth1891 crust1900 rind1901 smarting1902 hide1916 brass neck1937 1886 Amer. Hebrew 15 Oct. 147/1 Our coreligionist, on his arrival on board ship, is already manifesting the first signs of American patented ‘Hutzpe’. 1890 Jewish Standard 19 Sept. 10/1 In synagogues the brazen-faced intruder often prospers by his or her chutzpah. 1945 A. Kober Parm Me 97 You wanna be a crook, be awready a big fella!.. But a liddle fella, where he got the chutzpah to be a crook? 1967 O. Hesky Time for Treason xii. 94 The sheer chutzpa—the impudence—of defecting..right in front of his own eyes. 1968 New Statesman 29 Mar. 403/3 Kennedy can go..into a whole range of theoretically hostile environments with nothing more than chutzpah. 1991 A. Roddick Body & Soul iv. 89 We both had a lot of chutzpah in those days. 2002 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 24 Nov. ii. 34/3 Not a lot of 16-year-olds would have the chutzpah to say, ‘That's not right for me.’ This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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