chutzpadikadj.
/ˈxʊtspəˌdɪk/, /ˈhʊtspəˌdɪk/, U.S. /ˈxʊtspəˌdɪk/, /ˈhʊtspəˌdɪk/ colloquial.
Esp. in Jewish usage: showing chutzpah; impudent, impertinent; audacious, very self-confident.
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the mind > emotion > pride > impudence > [adjective]
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chutzpadik1959
1959 Jewish Frontier Oct. 54/3 Mature kibbutz children are in fact less chutzpadik, more settled and less concerned with foreign travel, and in general less spoilt than town sabras.
1979 D. Rosenberg & B. Rosenberg Music Makers xiii. 190 Somehow or other I ended up conducting. I was chutzpahdik, throwing myself in wherever I could.
2000 New Republic 21 Feb. 30/1 He was chutzpadik enough to fulminate, Alceste-like, against the vulgarization of culture and the debasement of taste—and to the patrons of the Great White Way, no less!
2015 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 4 Dec. (Books section) 40 His Jewish identity influenced him to become the often chutzpadik lawyer that he is.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1959