English [ edit ]
Etymology [ edit ]
Clipping of pregnant or pregnancy .
Adjective [ edit ]
preg (comparative more preg , superlative most preg )
( 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 ."
preg (plural pregs )
( 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 , 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.
Anagrams [ edit ]
Norwegian Bokmål [ edit ]
preg n (definite singular preget , indefinite plural preg , definite plural prega or pregene )
impression
preg
imperative of prege