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Preg vs Dreg - What's the difference?

preg | dreg |

As nouns the difference between preg and dreg

is that preg is (informal) pregnancy while dreg is sediment in a liquid.

As an adjective preg

is (informal) pregnant.

preg

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (informal) Pregnant.
  • * 1977 , Erich Segal, Oliver's Story , HarperTorch (2002), ISBN 0380018446, page 318:
    • The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.
  • * 1989 , Carole L. Glickfeld, "What My Mother Knows", in Useful Gifts , University of Georgia Press (1989), ISBN 9780820310411, page 4:
    • My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.
  • * 1994 , Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat , Magna Large Print Books (1994), ISBN 9780750506496, page 225:
    • 'Am I? Well, I'll let you in to a secret. I'm pretty sure I'm preg ."

    Synonyms

    *See also .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Pregnancy.
  • * 2008 , Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie , Vantage Press (2008), ISBN 9780533158249, page 29:
    • Pat told me once at their house that I should not play badminton because I might fall. She, who rode horses every day of her pregs !
  • * 2008 , Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion , Ballantine (2008), ISBN 9780345465276, page 308:
    • She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.
  • * 2010 , Linda Russell, " Notes from the new-mother zone", The Globe and Mail , 8 June 2010:
    • There was nothing even approaching the near-great, so (and I can't believe I ever had this much free time in my former life) I actually designed and sewed all my preg stuff myself.

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    dreg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Sediment in a liquid.
  • By extension, the lowest and most worthless part of something.

    • Usage notes

    This term is usually used in plural: see dregs.

    Quotations

    * 1602?': What makes this pretty abruption? What too curious '''dreg espies my sweet lady in the fountain of our love? — William Shakespeare, ''Troilus and Cressida * 1768':O! be the cup of joy to thee consign'd, / Of joy unmix'd, without a '''dreg behind! — William Hayley, from 'On the Fear of Death, An Epistle to a Lady, 1768', in ''Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects 1818. * 1910': Fear and trauma may drain to the last '''dreg the dischargeable nervous energy, and, therefore, the greatest possible exhaustion may be produced by fear and trauma. George W. Crile. in an address delivered at the Massachusetts General Hospital 15 Oct 1910, collected in ''The Origin and Nature of Emotions

    References

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.048

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