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touched in the head en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (colloquial) Demented; slightly mentally deficient.
   • I believe he's more touched in the head than I am. 1990, Reinaldo Arenas, The Palace of the White Skunks, page 136:
   • It is broad daylight and if she can not simply guide the car along the highway then this bitch was more touched in the head that^([sic]) I thought. 2003, Tracee A. Hanna, A Little Bit of Sinning, page 163:
   • Who could say, perhaps Nastasya was even more touched in the head now, and if she used to make up stories about the old man crying and bleeding when she was here, maybe she had moved on to death over there? 1991, [1979], Valentin Rasputin, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Farewell to Matyora, page 199:

Forms

Synonyms

touched · tetched

Translations (10)

fr frappé (slightly mentally deficient) · es tocado de la cabeza (slightly mentally deficient) · es lonyipietro (slightly mentally deficient) · ru тро́нутый (slightly mentally deficient) · fi vajaa (slightly mentally deficient) · ru с приветом (slightly mentally deficient) · ca tocat del bolet (slightly mentally deficient) · ja 気が触れた (slightly mentally deficient) · ca tocat del perol (slightly mentally deficient) · de nicht ganz klar im Kopf (slightly mentally deficient)