shrugging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɹʌɡɪŋ/

Verb

shrugging

1. present participle 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.