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shruggings

shruggings is the plural of shrugging.

Meaning of shrugging

Noun

shrugging (plural 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.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

Questions about shruggings

What is shruggings the plural of?
Shruggings is the plural of shrugging.

Words near shruggings in the dictionary

  1. shruggie
  2. shruggies
  3. shrugging
  4. shrugging off
  5. shruggingly
  6. shruggings
  7. shruggy
  8. shrugs
  9. shrugs off
  10. Shrum
  11. shrump

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