Word: chutzpa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHETHER in tribulation or triumph, the Jews over the centuries have learned to extract a laugh from almost any event. Last week, acting as the unofficial humor makers of America, they produced a rapid-fire chain of chutzpa-laced jokes about the Middle East conflict that flew as swiftly as a Jewish Superman (see cut). Their comic chronology...
...have a lot of chutzpa to call Jack Ruby [Jan. 13] what you did in that caption...
...Chutzpa-nerve; meshuga-crazy; goyim-gentiles; schmutzike-dirty; fineh menschen-nice people; fahrbhundjet-very, very lost; nahr-fool; zich austzeigen-show off; chochmes-jokes, wisecracks...
Random House can also rightfully claim that although its words are fewer, many are newer. It includes such current terms as the Yiddish chutzpa ("unmitigated effrontery or impudence"), ye-ye ("of, pertaining to, or characteristic of young sophisticates"), and even Mary Poppins' supercalifragilisticexpi-alidocious ("used as a nonsense word by children to represent the longest word in English...