暴れ猫のトリミングからシャンプーまで

What does “abareru” mean in Japanese?

An 暴れ猫 (abare-neko) is a cat that won’t hold still — it thrashes, kicks, and fights back. It’s built from the verb 暴れる (abareru), “to thrash about, rage, run wild,” glued straight onto 猫 (cat). Japanese loves attaching a verb-stem to a noun like this to mean “the kind that does X”: here, a cat that 暴れる right through its grooming.

暴れる is vivid and turns up everywhere: a storm can 暴れる, a drunk person can 暴れる, a toddler mid-tantrum 暴れる. The same stem-plus-noun move gives you 暴れ馬 (a bucking horse) and 暴れん坊 (a rowdy troublemaker, as in the classic TV series 暴れん坊将軍). To handle the cat, the groomer stays 強気 (tsuyoki) — “assertive, firm” — the opposite of 弱気 (yowaki, timid).