Prey vs Preg - What's the difference?
prey | preg |
(archaic) Anything, as goods, etc., taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder.
* Bible, Numbers xxxi. 12
That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
* Dryden
* Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
* Bible, Job iv. ii
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, title= The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
* Shakespeare
The victim of a disease.
(informal) Pregnant.
* 1977 , Erich Segal, Oliver's Story , HarperTorch (2002), ISBN 0380018446,
* 1989 , Carole L. Glickfeld, "What My Mother Knows", in Useful Gifts , University of Georgia Press (1989), ISBN 9780820310411,
* 1994 , Catherine Clifton Clark, The Saturday Treat , Magna Large Print Books (1994), ISBN 9780750506496,
(informal) Pregnancy.
* 2008 , Nancy J. Howe, Dear Owie , Vantage Press (2008), ISBN 9780533158249,
* 2008 , Jonathan Kellerman, Compulsion , Ballantine (2008), ISBN 9780345465276,
* 2010 , Linda Russell, "
As nouns the difference between prey and preg
is that prey is (archaic) anything, as goods, etc, taken or got by violence; anything taken by force from an enemy in war; spoil; booty; plunder while preg is (informal) pregnancy.As an adjective preg is
(informal) pregnant.prey
English
Noun
- And they brought the captives, and the prey , and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.
- Already sees herself the monster's prey .
- [The helmsman] steered with no end of a swagger while you were by; but if he lost sight of you, he became instantly the prey of an abject funk
- The old lion perisheth for lack of prey .
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}
- Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey .
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Adjective
(en adjective)page 318:
- The Simpsons have a little son and Gwen is preg with number two.
page 4:
- My ma's the one who told us Frankie Frangione's mother was preg again.
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)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 !
page 308:
- She'd lost all her preg weight, but twenty-five months later was still a little poochy in front, favored baggy sweatshirts.
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.