preg

See also: pręg

English

Etymology

Clipping of pregnant or pregnancy.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

preg (comparative more preg, superlative most preg)

1. (informal) Pregnant.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pregnant

   • 1977, Erich Segal, Oliver's Story, HarperTorch, published 2002, →ISBN, 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, →ISBN, 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, published 1994, →ISBN, page 225:

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

Noun

preg (plural pregs)

1. (informal) Pregnancy.
   • 2008, Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie, Vantage Press, published 2008, →ISBN, 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, published 2008, →ISBN, 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 June 8, Linda Russell, “Notes from the new-mother zone”, in The Globe and Mail:

     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.

See also

• pre-preg

Anagrams

• grep

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

preg n (definite singular preget, indefinite plural preg, definite plural prega or pregene)

1. impression

Verb

preg

1. imperative of prege