Definition

1. Adjective (Tính từ):
   • Extremely angry and itching to react/act: A colloquial expression describing a state of being so furious that one feels an immediate, intense urge to retaliate or take action. It implies anger has reached a boiling point, making one's "blood itch" for a response.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Nghe tin đó, anh ấy ngứa tiết lên, chỉ muốn tìm người kia ngay. (Hearing that news, he flared up, just wanting to find that person immediately.)
  • Đừng có nói nữa, tôi ngứa tiết rồi đấy! (Stop talking, I'm seeing red already!)
  • Bị chửi vô cớ, nó ngứa tiết muốn đánh nhau. (Being cursed at for no reason, he got his blood up and wanted to fight.)

Advanced Usage

• "ngứa tiết lên": to flare up, to become enraged (often used with the verb "lên" to indicate the anger rising).
  • Chỉ một lời nói đó cũng đủ khiến hắn ngứa tiết lên. (Just that one remark was enough to make him flare up.)

Variants and Related Words

• Tức giận (adj): angry, furious (a more standard term for anger).
• Phát cáu (v): to get angry, to lose one's temper (colloquial).
• Máu nổi lên (idiom): blood rises up (a similar idiomatic expression for sudden anger).

Synonyms

• Nổi điên: to go crazy (with anger).
• Nổi khùng: to fly into a rage (colloquial).
• Nổi xung: to erupt in anger.

Related Idioms

• Máu nổi lên: (one's) blood boils.
  • Nghe hắn nói, máu nổi lên tôi không kìm được nữa. (Listening to him talk, my blood boiled and I couldn't hold back any longer.)
• Tức sôi máu: so angry it makes one's blood boil.
  • Hành động của hắn khiến tôi tức sôi máu. (His actions made me furious [lit. made my blood boil].)

1. (khẩu ngữ) Have one's blood up, be fiare by one's anger to action, flare up
   • Nghe nói xấu bạn, ngứa tiết lên
     To flare up at hearing one's friend being spoken ill of