chutzpah Speculator Ex you're a cheerleader your team is down by 40 with 3 minutes left in the semifinal game you raise your index finger and proclaim: WE'RE NUMBER ONE! 030405 ... niska index, or middle? 030405 ... scuzz Chutzpah! Latin or Hebrew... can't remember, but it means How could you have the audacity to do that?! My spanish teacher says chutzpah to me a lot. (it sounds like hoots-pah. am i thinking of the right word here?) Anyway, I like it. 030405 ... birdmad If not Hebrew than Yiddish (there is a difference, Yiddish evolved among the more easterly-located of the European Jewish community) Typically, but not exclusively, meaning to be possessed of a good deal of nerve or audacity, typically most visible when the person described as having it is in the wrong. The old adage "The definition of chutzpah is the guy who kills his parents and then throws himself at the mercy of the court on account of the fact that he is an orphan" 030405 what's it to you? who go blather from