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• capi
• chalish – literally, fainting, ("I was chalishing from hunger,") sometimes used as a term of desperate desire for something or someone ("After a thirty-six hour shift, I was chalishing to go home already.")
• chazarai (Yiddish, חזירײַ khazerai 'filth' or, perhaps more literally, 'piggery', from חזיר khazer 'pig' from Hebrew חַזִיר "chazeer", pig) – junk, garbage, junk food
• chesid – good deed or favor. "Do me a chesid and clean your room."
• chiddush – a term used in the context of rhetoric and argumentation to mean a new forceful point brought into a discussion; innovation generally "I don't get it, what's the chiddush?"; the upshot or novel point made by an argument (from Hebrew Chadash, meaning 'new'); also used when you are making fun of someone for something entirely obvious. "Chiddush! Chiddush!"
• cholent – a stew cooked over night
• chutzpah – (Yid. from Heb.חצפה khutspe, alt. sp. חוצפה) ballsiness, "balls", guts, daring, audacity, effrontery. Has both a positive & negative connotation.