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▪ I. ˈshrugging, vbl. n. [f. shrug v. + -ing1.] †1. Shivering. Obs.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 120 A scharp feuere falliþ, þe which arrigor [= a rigor], þat is to seie a cold schurgynge [? read schrugynge], goiþ tofore. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1912) 217 The touch of the cold water made a prettie kinde of shrugging come over her bodie. 1678R. 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.
c1460Russell Bk. Nurture 287 Nor pikynge, nor trifelynge, ne shrukkynge as þauȝ ye wold sawe. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xvii. 141 The..shrugging of her hulchy Shoulders. 1693Evelyn De La Quint. Compl. Gard. I. 136 The shrugging up of the Shoulders. †3. Shrinking, hesitation. Obs.
1617Hieron 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.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 178 b, With a shrugging kinde of tremor in all her principall partes. †2. ? Causing shivers, chilling. Obs.
1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. 88 The shrugging ayre about thy Temples hurles. †3. Cringing. Obs.
1629Earle 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.
1814L. Hunt Sonn. Poems (1860) 233 The rambler..Feels..in his shrugging neck the resolute blast. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxxvi. Adrian ventured a shrugging protest in her behalf. 1910Contemp. Rev. Mar. 336 Her hunched and shrugging shoulder-blades. Hence ˈshruggingly adv., with a shrug.
1589Puttenham 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. 1901Daily Express 18 Mar. 4/4 Students of international politics..shruggingly express the opinion that Morocco will drift along. |