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weddingzilla en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˌwɛdɪŋˈzɪlə/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From wedding + -zilla (suffix forming nouns and names suggesting a monster or a thing of extremely large size or great destructiveness) (a back-formation from Godzilla).

Meanings

  1. (attributive, humorous, often) A person overly concerned with ensuring that a wedding goes exactly as they envision it.
    • She wasn't in the family gathering to see Sarah's weddingzilla dress burn. 2007 November 6, “alanG”, “Audreh SNUK”, in rec.arts.tv.uk.coronation-st (Usenet):
    • At least he's making Weddingzilla-ism slightly more of an equal-opportunity affair. 2013 April 23, Megan Garber, “We Have Ourselves a Groomzilla”, in The Atlantic:
    • It can be hard for a man to understand how an otherwise sweet and reasonable woman can go all weddingzilla: "My dress must have a 50-foot train, trimmed with the skins of puppies!" 2012 April 11, Amy Alkon, “Advice goddess”, in Colorado Springs Independent:

Forms

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weddingzillas Number=Plur lexicographic

Holonyms

couplezilla

Hyponyms

groomzilla · bridezilla

Translations (1)

mnw ပေါဲသ္ပမ္ၚဵုထပ်တဲဇဳလာ (person overly concerned with ensuring that a wedding goes exactly as they envision it)