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shruggy en · ADJ

Etymology

From shrug + -y.

Meanings

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a shrug (gesture).
    • FANNY turns slowly to TILDA. TILDA gives a little, shruggy, affectionate gesture, as if to apologise. 1980, David Edgar, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby:
  2. (informal) Inclined to shrug; uncaring or apathetic.
    • I want to say, “Then why were you all shruggy and silent and abandon-your-friends-ish?” But he did endure youth group with me. So maybe they sort of even out. 2012, Lucas Klauss, Everything You Need to Survive the Apocalypse, page 41:

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