Shrug

A young man, wearing a shirt with several buttons undone, a loosened paisley tie, and plastic silver tiara with a blue sticker that reads "Scamper," holding a plastic party cup, shrugging at the camera.
A shrug with a tiara, a glass of water, a dress shirt, and a loose necktie.

A shrug is a gesture performed by raising both shoulders, and is a representation of an individual either being indifferent about something or not knowing an answer to a question.[1] A shrug is an emblem, meaning that it integrates the vocabulary of only certain cultures and may be used in place of words.[2] It can also be used when simply ignoring a question. It may be accentuated with raised eyebrows, a turned-down mouth, an exaggerated frown, and raised palms. It is very common in Western culture—rather than saying "I don't know", one may simply perform a shrug. In the English-speaking world it may be accompanied by a three-syllable grunt or hummed mumble mimicking the intonation of "I dunno" (low-high-low).

Shoulder shrugs are among the symptomatic tics of Tourette syndrome.[3]

Emoji

The shrug gesture is a Unicode emoji included as U+1F937 🤷 SHRUG.[4] The shrug emoticon, made from Unicode characters, is also typed as ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ .

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Shrug | Define Shrug at Dictionary.com". Dictionary.reference.com. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
  2. ↑ EKMAN, Paul. Telling Lies, p.101
  3. ↑ "Anxiety/panic disorder most frequent disabling comorbid disorder in Tourette syndrome patients, study finds". 2010-06-19.
  4. ↑ "Shrug Emoji". Emojipedia. Retrieved 2016-01-17.


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