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Definition of 'preg'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (informal) Pregnant.
  • * 1977 , Erich Segal, Oliver's Story , HarperTorch (2002), ISBN 0380018446, page 318:
  • The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.
  • * 1989 , Carole L. Glickfeld, "What My Mother Knows", in Useful Gifts , University of Georgia Press (1989), ISBN 9780820310411, page 4:
  • My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.
  • * 1994 , Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat , Magna Large Print Books (1994), ISBN 9780750506496, page 225:
  • 'Am I? Well, I'll let you in to a secret. I'm pretty sure I'm preg ."

    Synonyms

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (informal) Pregnancy.
  • * 2008 , Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie , Vantage Press (2008), ISBN 9780533158249, page 29:
  • Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs !
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion , Ballantine (2008), ISBN 9780345465276, page 308:
  • She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.
  • * 2010 , Linda Russell, " Notes from the new-mother zone", The Globe and Mail , 8 June 2010:
  • There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.

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