preggo

发音

AU

词形变化

preggos 复数 preggos

别名

prego

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pregnant female.

    冒犯 俚语

    Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.

    2009, Joel Grus, Your Religion Is False, Brightwalton LLC, US, page 105, Accordingly, they tend to send their gay children off to “conversion therapy” (involving techniques ranging from clitoridectomy to shame) and their pregnant children off to single-sex maternity homes (which are full of all sorts of oddly-titillating preggo-on-preggo action, according to the videos on a website I accidentally stumbled across several times).

    2009, Rebeca Seitz, Scrapping Plans, B&H Publishing, US, page 306, “You bet!” Clay trots back into the diner, reappearing a moment later with a chair. “Here ya go, preggo.”

    For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Pregnant.

    非正式

    1998, Suzanne Brockmann, Everyday, Average Jones, Silhouette Intimate Moments, US, page 67, “Actually, being careless got me... preggo. And to tell you the truth,″ Melody said seriously, “not using a condom could' ve gotten me far more than just pregnant. […] ”

    2010, Dana Wood, Momover: The New Mom's Guide to Getting It Back Together, Adams Media, US, page 5, And if you were a little panicky while preggo, I urge you to cut yourself some slack, too.

    2010, Hilary Smith, Welcome to the Jungle: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Bipolar But Were Too Freaked Out to Ask, Red Wheel/Weiser LLC, US, page 193, You automatically qualify for Medicaid if you′re preggo and poor. Just saying.

    For more usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

词源

A clipping of pregnant + -o (“diminutive suffix”). First use appears c. 1951 in the novel Come In Spinner. See citations page.

来源:wiktionary