Definitions
Raise the shoulders to show doubt, indifference, or uncertainty.
Word origin
From Middle English schruggen, shrukken, probably of North Germanic origin related to Danish skrugge, skrukke (“to stoop; crouch”), Swedish skruga, skrukka (“to huddle; crouch”), all from or related to Old Norse skrykkva, from Proto-Germanic *skrinkwaną. Compare also Old English scrincan (“to shrink”). More at shrink.
Used in a sentence
“He dismissed my comment with a shrug.”
“I asked him for an answer and he just shrugged.”
“When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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