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Prego vs Preg - What's the difference?

prego | preg |

As an interjection prego

is you're welcome.

As an adjective preg is

(informal) pregnant.

As a noun preg is

(informal) pregnancy.

prego

English

Adjective

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  • * 2001 February 28, "MaliTheAncient" (username), "D*** tired of waiting!!!!", in rec.pets.dogs.breeds, Usenet :
    • Just a note (so that I can say something...) I've never had good luck with A.I. I tried to get my Tarentaise heifer (cow) A.I.ed with this fantastic bull's semen...did all my research, spent months putting this thing together. We A.I.ed her....preg tested later and she was prego .
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    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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