"touched in the head" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more touched in the head [comparative], most touched in the head [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} touched in the head (comparative more touched in the head, superlative most touched in the head)
  1. (colloquial) Demented; slightly mentally deficient. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: tetched, touched Translations (slightly mentally deficient): vajaa (Finnish), 気が触れた (ki ga fureta) (Japanese), с приветом (s privetom) (Russian), тро́нутый (trónutyj) (Russian), tocado de la cabeza (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-touched_in_the_head-en-adj-46jrIt1h Categories (other): Russian terms with redundant script codes

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1991, [1979], Valentin Rasputin, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Farewell to Matyora, page 199",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "2003, Tracee A. Hanna, A Little Bit of Sinning, page 163",
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      "sense": "slightly mentally deficient",
      "word": "vajaa"
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      "sense": "slightly mentally deficient",
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