shrugging

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shrugging

  1. present participle and gerund of shrug

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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.