☆ENGLISH ONLY☆コミュのHow do you say "he so ma ga ri" in English?

Nice to meet you.

This is Megumi.
This is my first time to write my topic.

I have studied English in US for one year, and yesterday I watched the video in speech class.
It talked about culture, gestures, and idioms.

One Japanese guy explained "hesomagari" in English.
I understoon what he said, but nobody understood...

I wanted to explain well to understand for them, but I couldn't...

Well...this is my English promblem...

Somebody help me...

I don't want to give up!!

How do you explain "he so ma ga ri" in English?

Thank you for reading.
Have a nice day

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[1] mixiユーザー 02月15日 03:52

This is what an online dictionary says:

臍曲がり【へそまがり】 (adj-na,n) perverseness

[2] mixiユーザー 02月15日 04:05

# あまのじゃく
contrary person // devil's advocate // difficult man to please // opposite person // perverse person // too negative

Here is a nice dictionary.
http://www.alc.co.jp/

[3] mixiユーザー 02月15日 04:14

I don't think へそまがり refers to perverseness today, though I could be wrong.

My vote goes to "devil's advocate" and "be difficult."

[4] mixiユーザー 02月15日 04:16

Are there around you such kind of people who can not admit own mistakes , even they are obviously wrong or bad ,because they are not gentle and they sulk or become sulky over trivial bad thing??
We refer those men to as “hesomagari” in Japanese!!

Is this an answer?

I hope that you can explain this Japansese words to them!!

[5] mixiユーザー 02月15日 04:47

The closest English equivalent to this word, I think, is "stubborn".

[6] mixiユーザー 02月15日 06:18

Thank you so much, 真愛天-san, ＠今-san, だいはど-san, じぇーむず-san, and UltraMantis-san

When I saw everyone's answers, I was so happy because I didn't expect.

"perverseness", "stubborn", "be difficult" and "devil's advocate"

Next week, I'm gonna try to explain using these words.:D

If they can understand in Japanese, I speak Japanese, but everybody is American...
They will not...and also I am studying English, so I don't want to use Japanese in class or other time, too.

Anyway, thank you so much putting your answer in my topic, guys