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pagalee

pagalee adjective: extremely stupid or foolish; mentally retarded.

Adjective

pagalee (comparative more pagalee, superlative most pagalee)

  1. (Guyana, derogatory, slang) Extremely stupid or foolish; mentally retarded.
    • My cousin is in 8th grade and he has 163 Instagram followers. How does a pagalee coolie boy like him have that many?2015 March 14, @TreezyG, Twitter, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2024

Forms of pagalee

comparativemore pagalee
superlativemost pagalee

Origin of pagalee

Borrowed from Hindi पगला (paglā, “crazy person, madman”) and Hindi पागल (pāgal, “mad, crazy”).

Questions about pagalee

What does pagalee mean?
Pagalee means extremely stupid or foolish; mentally retarded.
What part of speech is pagalee?
Pagalee is an adjective.

Words near pagalee in the dictionary

  1. Pagaduan
  2. Pagaduans
  3. pagal
  4. Pagalagala
  5. Pagalanggang
  6. pagalee
  7. Pagalongan
  8. pagals
  9. Pagalungan
  10. pagan
  11. Pagan's Paddock

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