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Chutzpah vs Doppelganger - What's the difference?

chutzpah | doppelganger |

As nouns the difference between chutzpah and doppelganger

is that chutzpah is (slang) nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion; while doppelganger is doppelganger,.

chutzpah

English

Alternative forms

* khutzpah * khutspah * chutspah * khutspe

Noun

(wikipedia chutzpah) (-)
  • (slang) Nearly arrogant courage; utter audacity, effrontery or impudence; supreme self-confidence; exaggerated self-opinion;
  • * 22/01/2007 , The Times, Modern Manners
  • If the service is rotten and the meal a disaster, we should withhold a tip and explain why we are doing so. Few of us have the chutzpah to do this.
  • * 12/11/2007 , John Scalzi, Whatever, Your Creation Museum Report
  • But seriously, the ability to just come out and put on a placard that the Jurassic era is temporally contiguous with the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt — well, there’s a word for that, and that word is chutzpah .

    See also

    * cheek (n.), cheekiness (n.), cheeky (adj.), immortal rind (n.)

    References

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    doppelganger

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts such a person.
  • An evil twin.
  • A remarkably similar double.
  • (fantasy) A monster that takes the forms of people, usually after killing them.
  • Synonyms

    *alter ego