shrugging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɹʌɡɪŋ/

Verb

shrugging

1. present participle and gerund of shrug

Noun

shrugging (plural shruggings)

1. The act of one who shrugs.
   • 1824, William Craig Brownlee, A careful and free inquiry into the true nature and tendency of the religious principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers:

     And in our times, in Philadelphia, there have been specimens of violent shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches, and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the pews.

   • 2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.36:

     My crucial mistake was shrugging instead of shaking my head.