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1951 Come In Spinner :Guinea's face lighted with unholy glee.' A Parker prego ? Did I hear right?'
1988 — James Lileks , Falling Up the Stairs , E. P. Dutton (1988), →ISBN , page 202:
"Like, I don't know. But she's either dying or preggo and neither is cool. You want something to read?" 1990 — Linda Crew , Someday I'll Laugh About This , Dell Publishing (1990), →ISBN , page 40:
Tanya shrugs. "About all it ever gets used for is my stepmother's preggo workout tapes."
"What's a preggo workout?" I ask.
"Stupid!" Kirsten says. "For pregnant people." 1997 — James Heneghan , Wish Me Luck , Laurel-Leaf Books (1997), →ISBN , page 30:
Mrs. Sharp had been preggo . With child. Balloon over the toyshop, as my Uncle Larry used to say. 1998 — Carol Shields , Larry's Party , Random House (1998), →ISBN , page 32 :
"They think no one's good enough for their precious little Larry, that's what they think. Especially girls dumb enough to go and get themselves preggo ." 1998 — Leslie Doolittle, "Give Regards To Mccartney ", Orlando Sentinel , 9 December 1998:
Prince Charles had lots of questions for the two preggo Spice Girls at the 77th Royal Variety Performance on Monday. 2006 — Alan Lawrence Sitomer , Hip-Hop High School , Hyperion Books (2006), →ISBN , page 209:
It was only a matter of time before the whole school found out that Cee-Saw had become a preggo teen and dropped out. 2011 — Bruna Nessif, "Bryce Dallas Howard Opens Up About Her 'Postpartum Denial' ", E Online , 1 August 2011:
Radiating in a preggo glow, Howard tells us, "I feel privileged to be pregnant, and I'm gonna be honest, I'm a little nauseous." 2012 — Amy Sciarretto, "Beyonce Covers French Edition of Glamour ", PopCrush , 4 January 2012:
The still-preggo Beyonce continues to rack up the international magazine covers. [ edit ]
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1975 — October 27, Larry Rhine & Mel Tolkin, "Mike Faces Life", episode 6-7 of All in the Family Michael Stivic: Come on, Gloria. No one, no one, is going to deny you your constitutional rights.Gloria Stivic: Power to the preggos !2003 — Jincy Willett , Winner of the National Book Award: A Novel of Fame, Honor, and Really Bad Weather , Picador (2004), →ISBN , page 8 :
We all nodded except for the cave-preggo , who said, "Fuck huh." 2004 — Joanne Kimes & Jeff Kimes, Pregnancy Sucks for Men: What to Do When Your Miracle Makes You Both Miserable , Adams Media (2004), →ISBN , page 183 :
In addition, these massages focus on the problems of a preggo , like sciatica and backache. 2008 — Meredith Nash, "Too posh to push? No, just too scared ", The Age , 2 March 2008:
The fact that more woman are admitting to actually being afraid of vaginal birth means that the rising rates of elective caesareans are not necessarily only a result of celebrity preggos who are beyond the whole birth thing. 2009 — Eve Brown-Waite, First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart…and a Third-World Adventure Changed My Life , Broadway Books (2009), →ISBN , page 230 :
"That's my daughter. The preggo from Africa!" My mother announced this to everyone, as if I, not the bride, were the star of the show. 2010 — Autumn McAlpin, "Selling the crib, keeping the memories ", OC Register , 12 May 2010:
OK, Craigslist, I have a crib to post. What to say to the hundreds of bloated and moaning preggos out there waddling through Babies R Us wondering why the current state of the economy hasn't depreciated the price of nursery furniture?
