Definitions
Etymologies
- Yiddish מגילע (mgile, "megillah"), from Hebrew מגילה (megilá, "scroll") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There are several major components of the Purim holiday, including public readings of the Book of Esther (k'riat megillah), giving charity to the poor (matanot la'evyonim) and delivering gifts to friends (mishloach manot).”
“So, the big megillah questions are; 1 Did Buffett push Sokol out the door?”
“You can see the green grass and rolling hills, taste the salt air... the whole megillah.”
“The whole Hanukkah megillah, if you will, is that while the Jews only had a day's worth of lamp oil for the temple light, through some miracle, it lasted eight -- a miracle of sustainability.”
The Huffington Post: Ellen Kanner: Meatless Monday: Some Kind of Miracle
“He couldn't go in there for it and leave, and he couldn't go in there and stay without an all night megillah.”
“Nomi and I and the kids will be in costume listening to the megillah, and then we'll have some prep work for Sunday.”
“The media have come to explore the possible presidential candidacy of Donald Trump, who has himself formed an exploratory committee, blanketed the talk shows, and threatened to spend $100 million to win not just the Reform Party nomination but “the whole megillah.””
“It might just encourage someone to put out the whole megillah.”
“A Purim "schpiel" (comedic routine, skits) will be performed tonight after the megillah reading.”
“The rest of the world was squeezed into 60 second mashups while the megillah du jour was rehearsed again and again.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘megillah’.
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Yiddishkeit
There are a few short lists of Yiddish words, but none appropriate to the glory of the language, and none that are open. Thought I'd start one, and would love contributions. I'm tagging as I go, an...
schmuck, nosh, chutzpah, shtick, kvetch, oy vey, oy gevalt, shvitz, shtik, shiksa, putz, mensch and 94 more...
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Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Spe...
surquedry, equivocate, putative, turgid, congeries, irrefragable, quiddity, zaftig, flagitious, bloviate, perfidy, compendious and 227 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, M
metamerism, malady, margin, marauder, maverick, mercury, mirth, mandible, macerate, meteor, manumission, mica and 292 more...
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word set 12
plasmasphere, cockatrice, delimitable, precipitancy, trellising, thermochromism, cadenza, tentaculiferous, fluctiferous, circumambient, loblolly, trailing edge and 142 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Jayni's Favorites
Too early to tell
schnook, pish, tetchy, megillah, nebbish, plotz, slattern, trollop
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technomom's Words
misology, sacerdotal, omphaloskepsis, jimjams, incunabulum, repose, trecento, chimera, tridecennary, tenebrous, purblind, floruit and 207 more...
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my words
any word that is fun to say will be included in this list
eschew, sparkle, obfuscation, psychosomatic, raconteur, etymological, erudite, ruminations, genuflect, slavering, excoriation, recompense and 53 more...
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mmalone's Words
miasma, kitsch, equipoise, pinion, harbinger, mirabilis, annus mirabilis, skein, bulwark, capricious, fortuitous, planetesimal and 233 more...
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Yiddish
I tend to use a lot of Yiddish words on a daily basis. I honestly don't know why.
bupkis, chutzpah, verklempt, kibbitz, klutz, kvetch, megillah, mensch, meshugana, putz, schlub, schmaltz and 11 more...
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foreign
foreign words used in English
a priori, a certiori, prima facie, hardener, sitzfleisch, weltanschauung, gotterdammerung., schadenfreude, ersatz, lebensraum, a fortiori, nihil obstat and 50 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for megillah.
reesetee I remember him well. Apr 7, 2009
john Also a famous gorilla. Apr 6, 2009