shrug

«shrug» in Mova's school dictionary: to raise your shoulders quickly and drop them, to show… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (shrug, shrugs, shrugged, shrugging); noun (a shrug, shrugs)

meaning for a pupil

1) To shrug is to raise your shoulders quickly and drop them, to show you do not know or do not care. tree →

2) A shrug is that movement. tree →

3) To shrug something off is to treat it as not important, or to get over it easily. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories a shrug shows a character's feeling without words: not knowing, not caring. Phrases: «shrug your shoulders», «shrug it off», «with a shrug».

examples

• «Where's your homework?» He just shrugged. tree →
• She shrugged her shoulders and said, «I don't know.» tree →
• He gave a shrug and walked away. tree →
• She shrugged off the fall and kept running. tree →
• Don't shrug when I ask you a question. tree →
• He shrugged off the cold and played on. tree →
• "All right," said Elfin, shrugging his shoulders. tree →

note

Double g: shrugged, shrugging. A shrug can be rude when someone asks you something, so it is better to answer in words.

In the corpora

• Kieran's gran shrugged «boys will be boys» about the street fights, as if bruises were a kind of weather.
• He shrugged, said «yeah, all right», and later he passed Maddie the ball.
• When kids ask, he says, «Never met him,» and shrugs.
• ne znAyu means I don't know, often said with a shrug; ne means not.
• But silence is not a yes, and a shrug is not a yes either.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shrug» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.