chutzpa

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.

by Joshua S. January 18, 2004

chutzpa

social courage and hustle; determination

as seen in Oprah's Chutzpa Awards...someone with extreme amounts of courage, pizazz, determination, creativity, etc.

by Mia May 13, 2005

chutzpa

gumption

by Anonymous September 24, 2003

chutzmama

1 noun - a (usually but not always) Jewish mother who acts with a disrespectful, domineering attitude towards her children (or anyone else who gets in the way)
2 verb - to control one's children like a chutzmama

1 Such a chutzmama! She asked my boyfriend to leave just like that without even asking me first.

2 Are you going to let her chutzmama you like that? Tell her you don't want to go to med school.

by Adin Eichler December 26, 2008

chutzpah

daring do, balls, bravery

the way paul got that traffic-cop to believe he didn't kill jack with jack's body in the trunk, talk about chutzpah!

by sum guy January 28, 2003

Chutzpah

An essential quality that 99/100 voles lack.

Other skills that voles fall behind in include lacklustre organisation skills and abysmal timekeeping.

"You've vole got no Chutzpah. Your organisation skills are lacklustre and your timekeeping is abysmal."

by Little A. Horne August 12, 2021

chutzpah

bloody cheek with a real nerve

a man is up in court for killing his mother and father ... he pleads to the court for leniency ... because he is an orphan ... now that's a chutzpah

by Alphasilk March 18, 2005