chutzpah

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

chutzpah
    n 1: (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity [syn:
         {chutzpa}, {chutzpah}, {hutzpah}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chutzpa \chutzpa\, chutzpah \chutzpah\n. [Yiddish khutzpa.]
   aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; gall; as, he
   had the chutzpah to question my decision. [Also spelled
   {hutzpa}, and {hutzpah}.]

   Syn: audacity, audaciousness.
        [WordNet 1.5]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "chutzpah":
      backbone, bottom, brashness, brass, brazen boldness, cheek, crust,
      face, gall, grit, guts, gutsiness, guttiness, heart, heart of oak,
      heroics, hubris, improvidence, imprudence, impudence, indiscretion,
      injudiciousness, insolence, intestinal fortitude, mettle, nerve,
      overboldness, overcarelessness, overconfidence, oversureness,
      overweeningness, pith, pluck, rashness, spirit, spunk, stamina,
      stout heart, temerariousness, temerity, toughness, unchariness,
      unwariness

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