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preggy

preggy adjective: pregnant (carrying a baby).

Adjective

preggy (not comparable)

  1. (slang) Pregnant (carrying a baby).
    • ‘Well, Matty, it's like this. I'm preggy.’1958, Doris Lessing, A Ripple From the Storm, HarperPerennial, published 1995, page 137

Origin of preggy

From pregnant + -y.

Questions about preggy

What does preggy mean?
Preggy means pregnant (carrying a baby).
What part of speech is preggy?
Preggy is an adjective.

Words near preggy in the dictionary

  1. preggers
  2. preggie
  3. preggies
  4. preggo
  5. preggos
  6. preggy
  7. pregiven
  8. pregivenness
  9. pregivennesses
  10. Pregl
  11. preglabellar

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