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Japanese slang word: gyakugire (逆ギレ) [Getting angry at the angry]

In this post I’d like to go over an interesting Japanese vocabulary word: gyakugire (逆ギレ). Gyakugire is a compound word made of two parts: gyaku (逆), which means opposite or reverse, and gire, which comes from kireru, a word with many meanings including “to get angry”. So literally, gyakugire means something like “reverse-anger”. (By the way, words composed of… Read More »