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/Sounds like "mahl" (as in "mark") + "BYAH" + "heh" (as in "help")/

Meaning

A feeling of anxiety, paranoia, or discomfort caused by a bad experience that messes with your head. Originally from drug culture, but now used for any intense mental unease.

Examples

I got a bad feeling when I saw the restaurant bill.

Don't freak me out with those horror stories.

Word family
Regional synonyms
Bandera de Argentina
Bandera de Uruguay
Yeta

In Spain, an insufferably tiresome and persistent person who never reads the room. A pelmazo latches on, goes on and on about the same topic, and genuinely cannot tell that everyone around them checked out long ago. The word comes from "pelma," a dense sticky mass, which is exactly how it feels to be around one.