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Prey vs Preg - What's the difference?

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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

  • (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
    • And they brought the captives, and the prey , and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest.
  • That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim.
  • * Dryden
    • Already sees herself the monster's prey .
  • * Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
    • [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
  • A living thing that is eaten by another living thing.
  • * Bible, Job iv. ii
    • The old lion perisheth for lack of prey .
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= William E. Conner
    • , title= 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.}}
  • The act of devouring other creatures; ravage.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, lion in prey .
  • The victim of a disease.

    • Related terms

    * prey on

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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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