giku-shaku
Describes a relationship or interaction that feels stiff and uncomfortable — conversations with long pauses, movements that are clumsy and uncoordinated.
💡After a fight with a friend — 'Things have been giku-shaku between us since the argument.'
喧嘩のあと、二人の関係がぎくしゃくしている。
After the fight, their relationship has been giku-shaku awkward.
Their conversation was ___ — you could feel the tension.
二人の会話が○○していて、緊張が伝わった。