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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Shruggverb

    To express horror or dissatisfaction by motion of the shoulders or whole body.

    Etymology: schricken, Dutch; to tremble.

    Like a fearful deer that looks most about when he comes to the best feed, with a shrugging kind of tremor through all her principal parts, she gave these words. Philip Sidney.

    The touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrugging come over her body like the twinkling of the fairest among the fixed stars. Philip Sidney.

    Be quick, thou wert best
    To answer other business; shrug’st thou malice? William Shakespeare.

    He grins, smacks, shrugs, and such an itch endures,
    As prentices or school boys which do know
    Of some gay sport abroad, yet dare not go. John Donne.

    They grin, they shrug,
    They bow, they snarl, they scratch, they hug. Jonathan Swift.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shrugg in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shrugg in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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