Unscramble

c 3 h 4 u 1 t 1 z 10 p 3 a 1 h 4

8 letters · 27 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity

originOriginated c. 1890–95 from Yiddish חוצפּה (khutspe), which was either borrowed via Medieval Hebrew or directly came from Aramaic חוּצְפָּא (ḥuṣpā, “audacity, boldness”), derived from חֲצַף (ḥăṣap̄, “to be impudent, arrogant”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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