preggers

«preggers» in Mova's school dictionary: pregnant — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (preggers; only used after «be»); slang

meaning for a pupil

(slang, UK) pregnant. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used jokingly and informally in chat and gossip to say a woman is going to have a baby. Slang register, mainly UK, also Australia.

examples

• Guess what — she's preggers! tree →
• My sister's preggers with twins. tree →
• Is she preggers or has she just eaten a lot? tree →
• Auntie Jo is preggers again. tree →
• «Preggers» is a jokey word, not for a doctor's letter. tree →
• The gossip at school was that the teacher was preggers. tree →

note

Too casual for formal writing. Asking a woman if she is preggers can be rude. Plain word: pregnant.

In the corpora

• "Preggers" means pregnant (British slang, chatty).

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «preggers» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.