Citations:preggo

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English citations of preggo

Adjective: "pregnant (UK and Australian usages)"

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  • 1988 — James Lileks, Falling Up the Stairs, E. P. Dutton (1988), →ISBN, page 202:
    "Like, I don't know. But she's either dying or preggo and neither is cool. You want something to read?"
  • 1990 — Linda Crew, Someday I'll Laugh About This, Dell Publishing (1990), →ISBN, page 40:
    Tanya shrugs. "About all it ever gets used for is my stepmother's preggo workout tapes."
    "What's a preggo workout?" I ask.
    "Stupid!" Kirsten says. "For pregnant people."
  • 1997 — James Heneghan, Wish Me Luck, Laurel-Leaf Books (1997), →ISBN, page 30:
    Mrs. Sharp had been preggo. With child. Balloon over the toyshop, as my Uncle Larry used to say.
  • 1998 — Carol Shields, Larry's Party, Random House (1998), →ISBN, page 32:
    "They think no one's good enough for their precious little Larry, that's what they think. Especially girls dumb enough to go and get themselves preggo."
  • 1998 — Leslie Doolittle, "Give Regards To Mccartney", Orlando Sentinel, 9 December 1998:
    Prince Charles had lots of questions for the two preggo Spice Girls at the 77th Royal Variety Performance on Monday.
  • 2006 — Alan Lawrence Sitomer, Hip-Hop High School, Hyperion Books (2006), →ISBN, page 209:
    It was only a matter of time before the whole school found out that Cee-Saw had become a preggo teen and dropped out.
  • 2011 — Bruna Nessif, "Bryce Dallas Howard Opens Up About Her 'Postpartum Denial'", E Online, 1 August 2011:
    Radiating in a preggo glow, Howard tells us, "I feel privileged to be pregnant, and I'm gonna be honest, I'm a little nauseous."
  • 2012 — Amy Sciarretto, "Beyonce Covers French Edition of Glamour", PopCrush, 4 January 2012:
    The still-preggo Beyonce continues to rack up the international magazine covers.

Noun: "(slang, sometimes offensive) a pregnant person"

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  • 1975 — October 27, Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin, "Mike Faces Life", episode 6-7 of All in the Family, 00:20:32-00:20:44:
    Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.
    Gloria Stivic: Power to the preggos!
  • 2003 — Jincy Willett, Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather, Picador (2004), →ISBN, page 8:
    We all nodded except for the cave-preggo, who said, "Fuck huh."
  • 2004 — Joanne Kimes & Jeff Kimes, Pregnancy Sucks for Men: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Both Miserable, Adams Media (2004), →ISBN, page 183:
    In addition, these massages focus on the problems of a preggo, like sciatica and backache.
  • 2008 — Meredith Nash, "Too posh to push? No, just too scared", The Age, 2 March 2008:
    The fact that more woman are admitting to actually being afraid of vaginal birth means that the rising rates of elective caesareans are not necessarily only a result of celebrity preggos who are beyond the whole birth thing.
  • 2009 — Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart…and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life, Broadway Books (2009), →ISBN, page 230:
    "That's my daughter. The preggo from Africa!" My mother announced this to everyone, as if I, not the bride, were the star of the show.
  • 2010 — Autumn McAlpin, "Selling the crib, keeping the memories", OC Register, 12 May 2010:
    OK, Craigslist, I have a crib to post. What to say to the hundreds of bloated and moaning preggos out there waddling through Babies R Us wondering why the current state of the economy hasn't depreciated the price of nursery furniture?