Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

magilla

/məˈɡɪlə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English

Syllables: mag-illa
IPA: /məˈɡɪlə/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Something large or elaborate.

noun

A big fuss or messy situation.

noun

An epitome; an acme; an exemplar.

noun

Someone big and brutish; a gorilla.

Example Sentences

"No, I didn't wear them. I got dressed up. Pantyhose, makeup, the whole magilla."
"Before a Kohen duchans he's gotta have his hands washed by one of the Levites, it's a whole magilla, what do I know?"
"I love your letters. They always bring me joy. Even the short ones. The magillas make me euphoric."
""Dream House" is the full magilla, with imaginary images, sanity questions, peek-a-boo startles and the usual are-they-real-or-not? characters."
"I'm good at it, I get paid fairly well for it, and some day I'm going to be one of the people in charge of the whole magilla."
"Now after this magilla, please be ashamed of yourself and sit down & write a nice long letter"

Etymology

From Yiddish מגילה (megile, “a lengthy document, a long story”), from Hebrew מגילה / מְגִלָּה (məḡillāh, “a scroll”). Doublet of megillah.

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Word Breakdown

Root: מגילה, -

Inflected Forms

magillas (plural) megillah (alternative)

Homonyms

megillah

Questions

How do you pronounce magilla?: The recorded pronunciation is /məˈɡɪlə/.
What does magilla mean?: Something large or elaborate.
Where does magilla come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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