1 - TUNI

Most English dictionaries copy uncritically from flawed sources and from each other 1. The result is an extra mess. In Chapman's New Dictionary of American Slang (1986), chutzpa is defined as 'extreme and offensive brashness; arrogant presumption; hurbis.' This definition is deficient for at least forty or fifty years (see below 4.6.1.). ................
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