▪ I. ˈshrugging, vbl. n.
[f. shrug v. + -ing1.]
† 1. Shivering. Obs.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 120 A scharp feuere falliþ, þe which arrigor [= a rigor], þat is to seie a cold schurgynge [? read schrugynge], goiþ tofore. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. (1912) 217 The touch of the cold water made a prettie kinde of shrugging come over her bodie. 1678 R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor., Anger ii. (1696) 352 A kind of Horror, and Shrugging upon the Sprinkling of Cold Water. |
2. Raising and contracting the shoulders.
| c 1460 Russell Bk. Nurture 287 Nor pikynge, nor trifelynge, ne shrukkynge as þauȝ ye wold sawe. a 1693 Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvii. 141 The..shrugging of her hulchy Shoulders. 1693 Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 136 The shrugging up of the Shoulders. |
† 3. Shrinking, hesitation. Obs.
| 1617 Hieron Wks. II. 351 There is with many a kind of shrugging at this dutie. |
▪ II. ˈshrugging, ppl. a.
[f. shrug v. + -ing2.]
† 1. Shivering, shuddering. Obs.
| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 178 b, With a shrugging kinde of tremor in all her principall partes. |
† 2. ? Causing shivers, chilling. Obs.
| 1598 Drayton Heroic. Ep. 88 The shrugging ayre about thy Temples hurles. |
† 3. Cringing. Obs.
| 1629 Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 88 Hee begs too, onely not in the downeright for Gods sake, but with a shrugging God blesse you. |
4. That shrugs, or is accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders.
| 1814 L. Hunt Sonn. Poems (1860) 233 The rambler..Feels..in his shrugging neck the resolute blast. 1859 Meredith R. Feverel xxxvi. Adrian ventured a shrugging protest in her behalf. 1910 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 336 Her hunched and shrugging shoulder-blades. |
Hence ˈshruggingly adv., with a shrug.
| 1589 Puttenham Engl. Poesie i. viii. (Arb.) 36 The third me thinks shruggingly saith, I kept not to sit sleeping with my Poesie till a Queene came and kissed me. 1901 Daily Express 18 Mar. 4/4 Students of international politics..shruggingly express the opinion that Morocco will drift along. |