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عقده‌ای

/ oqdeh-i /
interjection  ·  someone with a complex / chip on their shoulder
Say itoqdeh-I

Meaning

معنی
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Calling someone oghdei online is a specific cultural move: it lifts the conversation out of the topic at hand and into the person's psychology. Diaspora Iranians use it about hardliners back home ("the regime runs on oghdei men"). Tehrani Iranians use it about the same hardliners and also about the diaspora liberals who lecture them ("the diaspora oghdei"). The word goes both ways. It's the favorite tool of Iranian Twitter for ending an argument by claiming the other person isn't really arguing, they're processing.

In a sentence

مثال
خیلی عقده‌ای‌ست
kheyli oqdeh-i-st
he's so full of complexes
عقده‌ای شده
oqdeh-i shode
he's developed a chip on his shoulder
این مفسر عقده‌ای‌ست
in mofasser oqdeh-i-st
this commentator is just an oghdei
دوستش عقده‌ای‌ست
dust-esh oqdeh-i-st
his friend is one of those

In its constellation

در پیوند

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See it in the whole constellation →
عقده‌ایoqdeh-i
فلانfelânسوتیsutiداغونdâqunگلابیgolâbiهشتگ‌شناسhashtag-shenâsحزب‌الله ایرانhezb-ollâh-e Irân
عقده‌ایoqdeh-i
keeps company with ۶ words