shrugging
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
shrugging
- present participle and gerund of shrug
Noun edit
shrugging (plural shruggings)
- 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.