What is Chutzpa?
1.
Meaning: Attitude, or disrespect.
A Yidish word, though has become quite popular, for instance, in New York.
Adjective is chutzpadik.
John: I just smacked my teacher.
Mary: That took a lot of chutzpa.
John: I just smacked my teacher.
Mary: Thats very chutzpadik.
2.
social courage and hustle; determination
as seen in Oprah's Chutzpa Awards...someone with extreme amounts of courage, pizazz, determination, creativity, etc.
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3.
gumption
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Name attributed to Frankenstein under the theory that he was black.
Paul Mooney - "I thought Frankenstein was black, the way those..
