Chutzpah renders others speechless and incredulous ... one cannot quite believe that another person totally lacks common human traits like remorse, regret, guilt, sympathy and insight. The implication is at least some degree of psychopathy in the subject, as well as the awestruck amazement of the observer at the display. The cognate of "chutzpah" in Classical Arabic, "" (), does not mean "impudence" or "cheekiness" or anything similar, but rather "sound judgment". Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis distinguishes the meaning of "chutzpah" as stubbornness and contrariness from what he calls a tradition of "spiritual audacity" or ""chutzpah klapei shmaya"": As an example,
Prick (slang) used it with 'vulgar good humour'. Prick started to take on the sense of 'fool' or contemptible person in the 19th century, usually preceded by 'silly.'“The semantic association between stupidity and terms for the penis is noticeably strong.” notes Hughes. Silverton observes that 'whereas the French place idiocy with the vagina, the Yiddish and English place it with the penis, with shmuck and prick. In Farmer and Henley's "A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English" in 1905, the two definitions of prick are "a term of endearment (1540)", or 'a pimple.' Most linguists cite 1929 in the United States as