preg

comparative more preg · superlative most preg

1. informalPregnant.

   The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.

   1977, Erich Segal, Oliver's Story, HarperTorch, published 2002, →ISBN, page 318

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   My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.

   1989, Carole L. Glickfeld, “What My Mother Knows”, in Useful Gifts, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 4

   'Am I? Well, I'll let you in to a secret. I'm pretty sure I'm preg."

   1994, Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat, Magna Large Print Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 225

   Synonyms: big, carrying, child-great, delicate, eating for two, enceinte, expectant, expecting

plural pregs

1. informalPregnancy.

   She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.

   2008, Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion, Ballantine, published 2008, →ISBN, page 308

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   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, Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie, Vantage Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 29

   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.

   2010 June 8, Linda Russell, “Notes from the new-mother zone”, in The Globe and Mail