megilla

[Laurence Horn]

Well, if we're not going with "megillah", I vote for a truncation of
McGillicuddy.  If you check out the results for the "Dark and Stormy
Night" contest for the worst opening line of a (nonexistent) novel in
honor of Bulwer-Lytton at http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/dark.htm,
you'll see that the second entry reads as follows:

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     "Fightin' Joe" Steerforth thought he was tough until the day he
met Annie ("Big Bucket") McGillicuddy and she left him battered and
spent like a punch-drunk prizefighter on the ropes of love.
     --John Stark Bellamy II, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
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--LH, also wondering whether "Megillah" might be the actual first
name of "House"'s Dr. Cuddy

At 1:14 PM +0000 10/27/10, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>blend of MEGA and GONZILLA
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>From: Joel S. Berson
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>At 10/26/2010 12:21 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>Tony Harris on CNN: "This is just a *magilla* of a storm!  *There's* a word
>>a haven't used in a long time!"
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>Did he mean a long and tedious storm?  Quoth the OED, Megillah, n.
>sense 2:  "2. slang. [With allusion to the length of the Megillah.] A
>long, tedious, or complicated story".
>
>But probably not.  Just another example of Jew-baiting.
>
>Joel
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>
>
>>250 RGs for "magilla of a."
>>
>>I assume this has been influenced by "The Magilla Gorilla Show"
>>(1963-1967).  It's a gorilla of a storm. You know, a monster.
>>
>  >JL
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