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megillah
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[ muh-gil-uh; Sephardic Hebrew muh-gee-lah ]
noun
plural megillahs, Sephardic Hebrew megilloth, megillot
- Slang.
- a lengthy, detailed explanation or account:
Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah.
- a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
- (italics) Hebrew. a scroll, especially one containing the Book of Esther. Others are the Book of Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, the Book of Ruth, and the Book of Lamentations.
megillah
/ miɡiˈla; məˈɡɪlə /
noun
- a scroll of the Book of Esther, read on the festival of Purim
- a scroll of the Book of Ruth, Song of Songs, Lamentations, or Ecclesiastes
- slang.anything, such as a story or letter, that is too long or unduly drawn out
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of megillah1
First recorded in 1910–15; from Yiddish megile, from Biblical Hebrew ə “scroll, roll, volume,” from “to roll”
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of megillah1
Hebrew: scroll, from galal to roll
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“You have to do the whole megillah” when the crisis is as deep as it was, Rice said, because no single strategy can be effective.
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And the big megillah: the Good Hope Road and MLK intersection.
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No, wait, he wants to buy the whole megillah!
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“That was our biggest scene — a megillah,” Pearson says by phone.
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The drama of Jewish male selfhood that preoccupied so many in the middle generations — the whole Philip Roth-Woody Allen megillah — is all but erased.
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