megillah

Noun
  1. (Yiddish) a long boring tediously detailed account (synset 107232959)
    "he insisted on giving us the whole megillah"
    referred to in: yiddish - a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script
    is a type of: account, report - the act of informing by verbal report
  2. (Judaism) the scroll of parchment that contains the biblical story of Esther;
    Traditionally read in synagogues to celebrate Purim (synset 106419882)
    referred to in: judaism - the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
    is a type of: roll, scroll - a document that can be rolled up (as for storage)

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