shrugging

plural shruggings

1. The act of one who shrugs.

   My crucial mistake was shrugging instead of shaking my head.

   2008, Wally Lamb, The Hour I First Believed, Ch.2, at p.36

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   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.

   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

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of shrug