chutzpah

noun

🔊/ˈxʊtspə/, 🔊/ˈhʊtspə/

[uncountable] (often approving)

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behaviour, or a person’s attitude, that offends or shocks people but is so confident that they may feel forced to admire it 无所顾忌；敢作敢为synonym nerveTopics Personal qualitiesc2
Word Originlate 19th cent.: Yiddish, from Aramaic ḥu ṣpā.