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shrugging

  • /ˈʃɹʌɡɪŋ/

Rhymes with -ʌɡɪŋ

noun shruggings

  1. The act of one who shrugs. 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.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of shrug

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@misc{shrugging_2026,
  title = {shrugging},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shrugging},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}