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Pataki Syndrome 

"Pataki Syndrome"
noun
*When an individual (regardless of sex, race, or religion) shows love and affection by demeaning insults.
"Wow Jenn is really mean to you bro!"

"Naw man it's the Pataki Syndrome she's secretly in love with me."

Pataki Syndrome

When a person loves you but pretends to hate you. She is secretly in love but is it afraid to admit it. It is exemplified by the Hey Arnold character Helga Pataki who was secretly in love with Arnold.
She has Pataki Syndrome for John. She acts like she dont like him but she is obsessed with the guy.
Pataki Syndrome by anonymous December 28, 2025

Helga Pataki Syndrome

Loving someone so much that you hate them with the same instensity because you're afraid of rejection so you cover up your true feelings with the opposite.
Helga: Arnold! What a do-goody geek, how I loathe him... and yet... (silly music plays and she starts blabbing some poetry that she wrote about him)
Helga Pataki syndrome
Helga Pataki Syndrome by snejana October 17, 2012

Sean Pataki 

Person 1: "Big Macintosh is Sean Pataki"
Person 2: "yyeeeppp"
Sean Pataki by Spikey Wikey September 19, 2012

Helga Pataki Syndrome

When a person does what Helga does to Arnold on the tv show β€œHey Arnold."
When a girl or guy says nasty hurtful things to someone; but the person that is saying the nasty things really likes the person that he/she is bullying.

β€œHey maybe that girl has the Helga Pataki Syndrome.”
Helga Pataki Syndrome by boc277 January 6, 2008

helga pataki 

A blonde cartoon character with a unibrown on the Nickelodeon cartoon "Hey Arnold."

Helga is famous for beating up the other kids, her pink dress, and picking on Arnold constantly. Even though she is madly in love with him and carries a picture of him in a heart frame at all times. She is much to insecure to ever tell him.

Helga is the daughter of a crazy beeper sales man and a mom that seems to be drunk all the time.

She also has a best friend name Pheobe, who is very intelligent and lets Helga push her around.
Helga pushed Arnold into the water fountain and then ran off to gaze at her heart shaped picture.

Helga really needs to shave that unibrow.
helga pataki by theplainjane April 29, 2005