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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x1)
- My sister's preggers with twins. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x2)
- Is she preggers or has she just eaten a lot? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x3)
- Auntie Jo is preggers again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x4)
- «Preggers» is a jokey word, not for a doctor's letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x5)
- The gossip at school was that the teacher was preggers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/#x6)

### 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).](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/11-pregnancy-and-birth/7/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «preggers» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/preggers/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.