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单词 chutzpah
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chutzpahn.

Brit. /ˈhʊtspə/, /ˈxʊtspə/, U.S. /ˈhʊtspə/, /ˈxʊtspə/
Forms: 1800s chootsper, 1800s chutzbah, 1800s– chutspe, 1800s– chutspeh, 1800s– chutzpa, 1800s– chutzpe, 1800s– chutzpeh, 1800s– hutzpa, 1800s– hutzpe, 1900s chootspa, 1900s– chutzpah, 1900s– chutzpar, 1900s– chuzpa, 1900s– chuzpah, 1900s– chuzpe, 1900s– chuzpeh, 1900s– hutspa, 1900s– hutspah, 1900s– hutspe, 1900s– hutspeh, 1900s– hutzpah, 1900s– khutspa, 1900s– khutspah, 1900s– khutspe, 1900s– khutspeh, 1900s– khutzpa, 1900s– khutzpah, 1900s– khutzpe, 1900s– khutzpeh.
Origin: A borrowing from Yiddish. Etymon: Yiddish khutspe.
Etymology: < Yiddish khutspe impertinence, impudence, insolence, audacity < Aramaic ḥuṣpā, in the same senses ( > post-biblical Hebrew ḥuṣpāh (c600)) < ḥaṣap to be insolent or impudent.
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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