Godzilla

• Godzirra (evoking a Japanese accent)

From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Phonetic shift?”)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑdˈzɪlə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɒdˈzɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Godzilla

1. A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.
   • 2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

Godzilla (plural Godzillas)

1. (figuratively) Anything that is an extremely large or dramatic example of its type.

   a Godzilla of a tower building

   • 2009, P. J. O'Rourke, Peace Kills‎, Atlantic Books, →ISBN:

     Aren't we supposed to be a big, terrifying country, a Godzilla of capitalism wrecking the globe?

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• Godzilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from English Godzilla, from Japanese ゴジラ.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɔˈd͡ʑil.la/

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• Rhymes: -illa
• Syllabification: Go‧dzil‧la

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1. Godzilla (Japanese science-fiction monster)

• Godzilla in Polish dictionaries at PWN