chutzpah
Anglais modifier
Étymologie modifier
Nom commun modifier
| Indénombrable |
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| chutzpah \ˈhʊts.pɑ\ ou \ˈxʊts.pə\ |
chutzpah \ˈhʊts.pə\, \ˈxʊts.pə\
- (Indénombrable) (Argot) (New York) Culot, audace, impudence, effronterie.
- The price for all this chutzpah was that Malraux then had to take up the cause of the colonial indigenes as if it really mattered to him. — (Christopher Hitchens, André Malraux: One Man's Fate, 2005)
Variantes modifier
Prononciation modifier
- États-Unis : écouter « chutzpah [ˈxʊts.pə] »
Références modifier
- Michael Newman, New York City English, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, page 115