Noogie: Rubbing Knuckles Against Someone's Head (atama guri-guri 頭ぐりぐり)

In anime, sometimes a character rubs their knuckles against another's head to punish them. In English, this is called a "noogie."^{(merriam-webster.com:noogie)}

See head pat for the softer sort of head rubbing.

Left: Nohara Misae 野原みさえ
Right: Nohara Shinnosuke 野原新の助
Anime: Crayon Shin-chan, クレヨンしんちゃん (Episode 1)

• How to Say in Japanese
• Examples
• References

How to Say in Japanese

To say "noogie" in Japanese:^{(weblio.jp:noogie)}

• atama wo kobushi de guri-guri suru
  頭を拳でぐりぐりする
  To do guri-guri on [someone's] head using [your] fists. (literally.)
  To rub your knuckles against someone's head.
• atama guri-guri
  頭ぐりぐり
  Noogie. The act of guri-guri'ng someone's atama.
• guri-guri
  ぐりぐり
  A small but forceful swirling, spinning movement.
  (mimetic word.)

Anime: Hidamari Sketch, ひだまりスケッチ (Episode 1)

• guriguri-me
  ぐりぐり目
  A term for this sort of swirling eye.

It's also known as:^{(dic.pixiv.net:グリグリ攻撃)}

• guriguri kougeki
  グリグリ攻撃
  guriguri attack.
  • Specially used in Crayon Shin-chan, with Misae punishing Shinnosuke, giving it an image that adults use this technique to punish misbehaving children.

• umeboshi
  ウメボシ
  Pickled dried plum.
  
  • Possibly because placing umeboshi on the temples (where you put knuckles in this attack) is a remedy for headache in folk medicine.^{(dic.pixiv.net:ウメボシ)}

Examples

For reference, some examples of noogies in anime:

Top: Aizawa Eiko 相沢栄子
Bottom: Ika Musume イカ娘
Anime: Shinryaku! Ika Musume 侵略！イカ娘 (Episode 1)

• Context: Eiko, with angry, triangle eyes, punishing a monster girl for opening a hole in the wall.

Top: Maaka Ren 真紅煉
Bottom: Maaka Karin 真紅果林
Anime: Karin かりん (Episode 12, Altered)

• Context: Ren punishes his younger sister.
• bata-bata
  バタバタ
  Flapping. (like her arms.)
  (mimetic word.)

References

• noogie - merriam-webster.com, accessed 2021-06-14.
• noogie - weblio.jp, accessed 2021-06-14.
• グリグリ攻撃 - dic.pixiv.net, accessed 2021-06-14.
• ウメボシ - dic.pixiv.net, accessed 2021-06-14.