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Emotion & Feeling

むしゃくしゃ

musha-kusha

Extremely frustrated and irritated

A boiling inner frustration that makes you want to lash out or do something reckless. Worse than ira-ira — you're about to snap.

💡Everything going wrong at once — 'I was so musha-kusha I went for a long run to cool off.'

Example

むしゃくしゃして衝動買いしてしまった。

I was so musha-kusha that I went on an impulse shopping spree.

Quiz yourself

I was so ___ after the argument that I couldn't sleep.

けんかの後○○して眠れなかった。

frustrationangerstressimpulseirritation
Intermediate