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/Sounds like "teh" (as in "ten") + "NEHR" (as in "net") + "LAH" (as in "lava") + "kah" (as in "car") + "BEH" (as in "bed") + "sah" (as in "salsa") + "DOO" (as in "due") + "rah" (as in "rapper")/

Meaning

To be hardheaded, stubborn, slow to understand, or unable to learn from mistakes. Someone with a hard head repeats the same error a thousand times and still won't change.

Examples

She's hardheaded, they told her the same thing a thousand times and she still doesn't get it.

What a stubborn head you have, nobody can convince you of anything!

Regional synonyms

To obsess and spiral over something, cranking it up in your head until a small thing becomes an enormous problem. In Argentina and Uruguay, darse manija is that late-night overthinking loop where your brain refuses to stop replaying the same moment over and over.