megillah

Or ��·��·��

[muh-gil-uh, muh-gee-lah]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural

megillahs ,

plural

megilloth, megillot .

Slang.��
1. a lengthy, detailed explanation or account.
  Just give me the facts, not the whole megillah.
2. a lengthy and tediously complicated situation or matter.
(italics)��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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Word 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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Word 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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Megiddo megilp

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