Chutzpah interpretation of Hamlet set against the backdrop of Kashmir in the midst of political conflict, the protagonist uses the word chutzpah which they pronounce as /'tʃʊtspə/ instead of /ˈhʊtspə/ or /ˈxʊtspə/ to describe India's way of treating the people of Kashmir since the beginning of the conflict. This pronunciation sounds more like Indian slang. The Polish word "hucpa" (pronounced [ˈxut͜spa]) is also derived from this term, although its meaning is closer to "insolence" or "arrogance", and so it is typically used in a more negative sense instead of denoting a positive description of someone's audacity. Similarly, the German form of
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