ブチ切きれる

also: ぶちきれる

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Meanings

1

ichidan verb, intransitive verb

to lose one's temper; to snap; to flip out

colloquial

Colloquial and emphatic; describes suddenly becoming extremely angry, often with an outburst. The ぶち prefix intensifies the verb 切れる (to snap).

あの先せん生せいはすぐブチ切ぎれるから怖こわい。
That teacher is scary because he loses his temper so easily.

彼かれはその一ひと言ことでぶち切ぎれた。

He snapped at that one remark.

Written forms

ブチ切れるUsage60%
- ぶちぎれる
  Common colloquial spelling with katakana ブチ for emphasis.
- ぶちきれる
ぶち切れるUsage33%
- ぶちぎれる
  Hiragana ぶち variant; less emphatic than katakana.
- ぶちきれる
ぶちキレるUsage7%
search-only kana form
ぶちきれる
Kana spelling with reading ぶちきれる; less common than ぶちぎれる.

Kanji

切cut, cutoff, be sharp

Similar words

切きれる
切れる means 'to snap' or 'to lose one's temper' in a more neutral way; ブチ切れる adds a strong colloquial and emphatic nuance of suddenly exploding with anger.
怒おこる
怒る is the general verb for 'to get angry'; ブチ切れる implies a more intense, sudden, and uncontrolled outburst.

Etymology

Formed from the intensifying prefix ぶち (emphatic, colloquial) attached to 切れる (to snap, to lose one's temper). The exact origin of ぶち is uncertain, but it appears in other colloquial verbs like ぶち壊す (to smash) and ぶちまける (to spill).