English citations of pregs

Adjective: "(informal) pregnant" edit

1975 1993 1997 2001 2009 2011 2012
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  • 1975 — Stephen Gray, Local Colour, Ravan Press (1975), →ISBN, page 75:
    "You'll keep Elsabie," said Alex, "she's going to be pregs by him the way she goes for him."
  • 1993 — Odie Hawkins, Amazing Grace, Holloway House (1993), →ISBN, page 20:
    I hope I'm not pregs, that's all I'd need right now. I don't think I could stand another abortion.
  • 1997 — Jennifer Greene, Nobody's Princess, Harlequin (1997), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    [] I didn't know she could get pregs while she was still nursing, and then it was too late. []
  • 2001 — Wise, Wonder…, iUniverse (2001), Writers Club Press (2001), →ISBN, page 260:
    As I lay there I thought the thing probably miscarried because I was anemic plus I insisted on working out for an hour every other day even after working 9.5 hours plus I didn't stop drinking alcohol because I didn't want Yuri to find out that I was pregs until I told him.
  • 2009 — Alex Keegan, Ballistics, Salt (2009), →ISBN, page 37:
    I know that she got pregs one time and had it got rid of.
  • 2009 — Lizzie Skurnick, Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading, HarperCollins (2009), →ISBN, page 88:
    Not friends who stand behind you come what may all the way; not friends who become anorexic/alcoholic/cutaholic; not friends who offer witty quips when you get pregs and attend your teen-mom birth.
  • 2011 — Jennifer Echols, Love Story, Gallery Books (2011), →ISBN, page 162:
    [] Maybe she would have made it if she hadn't gotten pregs when she was twenty."
  • 2012 — Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Adams Media (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
    "For real. He wants to know what's up with all these chicks I got pregs. []