shrug 
shrug (shrug), v. ; pret. and pp. shruaged, ppr. 
tirvgging. [< ME. scliruggeii, tkrvJOem, < Sw. 
dial, skntkka, also n/,nii/a, huddle oneself up, 
sit in a crouching position, = Dan. skrukke, 
sbnigge, stoop (tkfut-rygget, humpbacked; cf. 
Icel. ikruklca, an old shrimp); a secondary 
form of the verb represented by AS. sorinean 
(pp. scruncen = Sw. assimilated skritkken), 
shrink: see shrink.] I. intraiis. 1. To shrink 
or shiver with or as with cold ; draw up the 
limbs in a nervous shiver. Prompt. Pan., 
p. 449. 
The touch of the cold water made a pretty kind of shrug- 
ging coma over her body, like the twinkling of the fairest 
among the fixed stars. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
The French lackey and Irish footboy shrugging at the 
doors, with their masters' hobby-horses, to ride to the new 
Deleter, Gull's Hornbook, p. 130. 
Robin the bird, In its cage, shrugs and folds itself into 
its feathers, as if it were night. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 17. 
2. To raise or draw up and contract the shoul- 
ders with a sudden, nervous movement : an ex- 
pression usually of doubt, indifference, discon- 
tent, dislike, contempt, etc. See shrug, n., 1. 
Nor pikynge, nor trifelynge, ne shrukkynge as than* ye 
wold sawe. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 135. 
Some few may cry, "Twas pretty well," or so, 
"But " and there shrug in silence. 
Ford, Broken Heart, Epil. 
What 's in agitation now, 
That all this muttering and shrugging, see, 
Begins at me ? Browning, Strafford. 
II. trans. If. Eeflexively, to draw up the 
shoulders of in a shrug. 
The good man of the house shrugged him for joy think- 
ing to himself I will make some pastime with you anon. 
Harman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 94. 
2. To draw up with a sudden, nervous move- 
ment ; contract in a shrug. 
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To flx the standard of measurement of shucked oysters 
in the State. Appleton's Ann. Cyc., 1886, p. 524. 
Tom ... led Rachel's horse to the stable, . . . and 
then he delayed long enough to shuck out and give him 
eight or ten ears of corn. 
E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxx. 
2. To take ; strip : with off. [Slang, U. S.] 
He'd get mad as all wrath, and charge like a ram at a 
gate-post ; and, the first thing you knowed, he'd shuck of 
his coat to fight. 
A. B. Longstreet, Southern Sketches, p. 31. 
He shrugs his shoulders when you talk of securities. 
Addt-son. 
Shrug (shrug), n. [< shrug, .] 1. An expres- 
sive drawing up of the shoulders : a character- 
istic manner of expressing doubt, indifference, 
discontent, contempt, etc., or, rarely, relief or 
resignation. 
The shrug, the hum or ha, these petty brands 
That calumny doth use. Shak., W. T., ii. 1. 71. 
Who 's not familiar with the Spanish garbe, 
Th' Italian shrug, French cringe, and German hugge? 
Brome, Antipodes, i. 6. 
As Spaniards talk in dialogues 
Of heads and shoulders, nods and shrugs. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 1492. 
With long-drawn breath and shrug, my guest 
His sense of glad relief expressed. 
Whittier, The Meeting. 
2f. A hitching up of the clothes. 
All the effect this notable speech had was to frighten 
my uncle, and make him give two or three shrugs extra- 
ordinary to his breeches. 
H. Walpole, To Mann, July 7, 1742. 
Shrump (shrump), v. i. [A secondary form of 
shrimpi.] To shrug; shrink. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
shrunk (shrungk). Preterit and past participle 
of shrink. 
Shrunken (shrung'kn), p. a. [Pp. of shrink, .] 
Having shrunk ; shriveled up; contracted: as, 
a shrunken limb. 
Shrunken synewes. Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 20. 
Shrups (shrups), n. The American woodcock, 
Philohela minor. C. S. Westcott, 1874. [Penn- 
sylvania.] 
Shu, interj. Another spelling of shoo 2 . 
shuck 1 (shuk), v. t. and i. [A dial, form of 
shock* or of shake (through the pret. shook, var. 
.v/i <*).] To shake. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
Shuck 2 (shuk), n. [Origin obscure ; the near- 
est similar forms, shuck?, shake, shuck*, shock^, 
a heap, shocks, shaggy, do not explain the word. 
If the verb is original, it may perhaps be a 
dial, form of shockl, and so belong with s/tjicfc 1 .] 
1. A husk or pod: used especially of the epi- 
carp of hickory-nuts and walnuts, the prickly 
involucre of chestnuts, etc., also, in England, 
of the pods of peas, etc., and, in some parts of 
the United States, of the husks of maize. 2 
The shell of the oyster. [U. 8.] 3. A case or 
covering, as that of tho larva of a caddis-fly. 
Larva? . . . before emerging from the shuck. 
The Field, Jan. 23, 1886. (Kncyc. Diet.) 
Not to care Shucks, to care nothing. [Vulgar, U. S.] 
Not worth shucks, good for nothing ; worthless [Vul- 
gar, U. S.J 
shuck 2 (shuk), v. t. [See shuck*, .] 1. To re- 
move the husk, pod, or shell from : in the United 
States said especially of the husking of corn or 
the shelling of oysters. 
(BartleU.) 
shuck 3 (shuk), n. [A var. of shock?, shook*.] 
A shock ; a stock. [Prov. Eng.] 
shuck 4 t (shuk), . [Found only in early ME. 
schucke, scuckc, < AS. scucca, sceocca, the devil ; 
cf. G. scheuche, a scarecrow, < MHG. schiech, 
G. scheu, shy: see s%!.] The devil. 
Hire eorthliche modres . . . teameth hire in horedom 
of the lathe vnwiht the hellene schucke. 
Halt Meidenhad (E. E. T. S.), p. 41. 
Al so age thu wel wutt schenden thene schucke. 
Ancren RiuHe, p. 316. 
shuck 5 (shuk), interj. [Cf. sc3.] A call to 
pigs. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
shuck-bottom (shuk'bof'um), a. Having a 
seat made of the shucks or husks of corn. 
[Local, U. S.] 
She sank down on a shuck-bottom chair by the door of 
the tent. E. Eggleston, The Graysons, x. 
shuck-bottomed (shuk'bof'umd), . [Ass/jwcfc- 
bottom + -erf 2 .] Same as shuck-bottom. 
He drew up another shuck-bottomed chair in such a way 
as to sit beside and yet half facing her. 
E. Eggleston, The Graysons, xxxi. 
shucker (shuk'er), . [< shuck? + -erl.] One 
who shucks ; one who shells nuts, corn, oysters, 
or the like. [U. S.] 
Estimating the average amount made by the shuckers at 
*6 a week, or $192 for the season, it is seen that there are 
six hundred and forty men steadily employed for nearly 
eight months of the year in opening oysters for local con- 
sumption in Baltimore. Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 553. 
Shucking (shuk'ing), n. [Verbal n. of shucW, 
0. ] 1 . The act of freeing from shucks or husks. 
[Provincial.] 
Lads and lasses mingle 
At the shucking of the maize. 
Bun Gaultier Ballads, Lay of Mr. Colt, ii. 
2. A husking-bee ; a husking. [Local, U. S.] 
Let me have some of your regular plantation tunes that 
you used to sing at corn-shuckings. 
Musical Record, No. 344, p. 8. 
shuckish (shuk'ish), a. [< shuck (?) + -fa/il.] 
Unpleasant; unsettled; showery: generally 
applied to the weather. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
shucklet, i'. An obsolete variant of chuck/el 
Florio. 
shucks (shuks), interj. [Prob. an exclamatory 
use of shucks, pi. of shuck*, used also to denote 
something worthless. It can hardly be an ex- 
clamatory use of shuck* ('the devil! the 
deuce!'), as that word became obsolete in early 
ME.] An interjection indicating contempt, 
especially a contemptuous rejection of some 
suggestion or remark: as, oh, shucks! I don't 
believe it. [Vulgar, U. S.] 
Shud 1 t(shud),. [Prob. ult., like shode^,<shed^: 
""" 1 31 n A husk; that which is shed. Davies. 
shuffle 
The schafte scodyrde and schott in the schlre byerne 
And soughte thorowowte the schelde, and in the schalke 
rystez. Iforte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2169. 
When the strong neighings of the wild white Horse 
Set every gilded parapet shuddering. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2. Hence, in particular, to tremble with a 
sudden convulsive movement, as from horror, 
fright, aversion, cold, etc. ; shiver ; quake. 
He schodirde and schrenkys, and schontes bott lyttile, 
Bott schokkes in scharpely in his schene wedys. 
Morte Arthure(E. E. T. S.), 1. 4235. 
She starts, like one that spies an adder 
The fear whereof doth make him shake and shudder. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 880. 
"Oh, for mercy's sake, stop this!" groans old Mr. 
Tremlett, who always begins to shudder at the sound of 
poor Twysden's voice. Thackeray, Philip, xxi. 
3. To have a tremulous or quivering appear- 
ance, as if from horror. [Bare.] 
O ye stars that shudder over me, 
O earth that soundest hollow under me, 
Vext with waste dreams ! 
Tennyson, Coming of Arthur. 
= Syn. Quake, etc. See shivers. 
Shudder (shud'er), n. [< shudder, .] 1. A 
tremulous motion; a quiver; a vibration. 
The actual ether which fills space is so elastic that the 
slightest possible distortion produced by the vibration of a 
single atom sends a shudder through it with inconceivable 
rapidity for billions and billions of miles. This shudder 
is Light. 
W. K. Clifford, Lectures and Essays, The Unseen Universe. 
2. Specifically, a quick involuntary tremor or 
quiver of the body, as from fear, disgust, hor- 
ror, or cold ; a convulsive shiver. 
I know, you'll swear, terribly swear 
Into strong shudders and to heavenly agues 
Ihe immortal gods that hear you spare your oaths. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 137. 
Shuddering (shud'er-ing), p. a. [Ppr. of shud- 
der, t'.] 1. Shaking; trembling; especially 
shivering or quivering with fear, horror, cold 
etc. 
The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone. 
Goldsmith, Traveller, 1. 65. 
The goblin . . . deftly strips 
The ruddy skin from a sweet rose's cheek 
Then Wows the shuddering leaf between his lips. 
Hood, Plea of the Midsummer Fairies, st, 7. 
2. Marked or accompanied by a shudder; trem- 
ulous. 
But what shall be done with all the hard refuse the 
long buns, the stalks, the short shuds or shiues? 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xix. 1. 
Shud 2 (shud), . [< ME. schudde, prob. < Sw. 
skydd, protection, skydda, protect, shelter; 
akin to L. scutum, a cover, shield, etc., and to 
sky: see skyl. Cf. Med 2 .] A shed; a hut. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 449. [Obsolete or prov. Eng 1 
shudder (shud'er), v. i. [< ME. schuderen, 
schudren, shodcren, shoddren, schoderen, scode- 
ren (not recorded in AS.) = MD. schudderen, 
shake, tremble, shiver, shudder, also shake 
with laughter, = LG. schuddern, shake, shud- 
der (> G. schaudern, shudder), also schuddeln, 
shake, shudder, = G. schuttern, shake, tremble, 
also OHG. scutilon, shake, agitate ( > It. scotolare, 
swingle flax),MHG. schuteln, G.sc/iwefa, shake 
f req. (with freq. formative -er, -el) from a simple 
verb, AS. 'scuddan (not found except as in the 
doubtful once-occurring ppr. scudende, which 
may stand for *scttddende, trembling) = OS 
skuddian, tr., shake, = OFries. schedda, NFries' 
schoddjen = MD. D. sclmdden, shake, tremble, 
tr. shake, agitate. = MLG. LG. schuddeti, shake, 
shudder, = OHG. scutten, scutcn, MHG. schut- 
ten, schuten, schutten, shake, agitate, swing G 
schuttcii, shoot (corn, etc.), pour, shed; Teut, 
V skud, perhaps orig. a var. of / skiit, whence 
shoot: see shoot. Cf. .s-cwrf.] 1. To shake- 
quiver; vibrate. 
How all the other passions fleet to air, 
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair 
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy ! 
Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 110. 
We seem to ... hear the shuddering accents with which 
he tells his fearful tale. Jlacaulay, Dante. 
Gazing down with shuddering dread and awe 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, I. 178. 
shudderingly (shud'er-ing-li), adv. With a 
shudder; tremblingly; tremulously. 
The bare boughs rattled shudderingly. 
Lou-ell, Vision of Sir Launfal, ii. 
The shrewmouse eyes me shudderingly, then flees. 
C. S. Calaerley, Sad Memories. 
Shudderyt, n. [E. Ind.] See the quotation. 
A small thin shuddery or lawn. 
S. Clarke, Geog. Descrip. (1671), p. 30. 
shude 1 , . See shood. 
Shude 2 (shod), . The white bream. [Local 
Ireland.] 
Shuff (shuf), r . i. [A dial, form (in Halliwell 
spelled shuf) of 'shough, an unrecorded form 
preserving the orig. guttural (AS. scedh, adi ) 
of s/i: see %l,?.] To shy. Halliwell. [Prov 
g.] 
Shuffle (shuf 1), v. ; pret. and pp. shuffled, ppr. 
shuffling. [Formerly also *shoffle, skoffel (m 
IE. shovelen: see shovel*); = MD. sclniffeleti 
drive on, run away, = LG. schuffelii, schiifeln 
move dragging the feet, shuffle, mix or shuf- 
fle (cards), play false, eat greedily; a freq 
form, also in unassibilated form scuffle , of shove 
u- 1 m part conf sed with the verb shored 
which is ult. from the same verb shove: see 
shove, scuffle^.-} I. trans. 1. To shove little by 
little ; push along gradually from place to place 
hence, to pass from one to another: as, to shuf- 
fle money from hand to hand. 
Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, . 
Shuffling her threads about the livelong day. ' 
Courper, Truth, 1. 320. 
2 Specifically, to change the relative positions 
dea/inf and in a h ? h aCk) '., ThiS ' 8 U8Uallv done be ' re 
hS r?n ? Th '^ cards face dow 'i, the object 
being to mix them thoroughly, so that they may fall to 
the players in random order. 
Hearts by Love strangely shuffled are, 
lhat there can never meet a Pair! 
Cou-ley, The Mistress, Distance. 
1 , m " st , co ' n Plai" the cards are ill shuttled till I have a 
good hand. Su\ft, Thoughts on Various Subjects. 
