This week’s theme
Movies that became words

This week’s words
groundhog day
rashomon
King Kong
Mad Max


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Movies that became words

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(god/guhd-ZIL-uh)

MEANING:

noun:
1. Someone or something of enormous size.
2. Someone or something fierce, frightening, monstrous, etc.

ETYMOLOGY:

After the 1954 Japanese film Gojira released in the US in 1956 as Godzilla. The film features an enormous dinosaur-like monster. Earliest documented use: 1965.

USAGE:

“She’d had too much to drink. ... She’d known she would wake up with a Godzilla of a hangover.”
Candace Bushnell; Lipstick Jungle; Hyperion; 2008.

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