magilla

noun /məˈɡɪlə/

1. Something large or elaborate.

   No, I didn't wear them. I got dressed up. Pantyhose, makeup, the whole magilla.

2. A big fuss or messy situation.

   Now after this magilla, please be ashamed of yourself and sit down & write a nice long letter

3. An epitome; an acme; an exemplar.

   “It's not just one more thing, this is the big magilla,” Keena said.

4. Someone big and brutish; a gorilla.

   Big, stupid magillas with guns.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry magilla (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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