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Yogi2005 Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Get pregnant

hello everybody,

Does anybody know any other expressions (slang, informal or formal) for "to get pregnant without planning"?

thanks for help
  

Top answer

Hi knocked up, expecting a baby, carrying a child, with a bun in the oven (although I'm not sure about the 'without planning'' part).

  • Hi knocked up, expecting a baby, carrying a child, with a bun in the oven (although I'm not sure about the 'without planning'' part).
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Hi
knocked up, expecting a baby, carrying a child, with a bun in the oven (although I'm not sure about the 'without planning'' part).
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"up the duff", "up the spout", "up the stick" "up the poke" "knocked up" "in the club" "up the stump", "in trouble", "bad" (Liverpool) "in the pudding club"
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This reminds me of an old joke - a little boy had been told that "pregnant" meant "carrying a child," so he worte a story in which a fireman ran into a burning house and came out pregnant.
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Thank you. I'm surprised that you have so many expression. it went beyond expectations.

I have additional questions to abbie or to anyone who knows the phrases given by abbie.
I looked up all the phrases in the dict. and the explanation is 'get pregnant'.

1. Do all the phrases unbiguously mean 'to get pregnant without planning' or some of them might be uderstood as just '
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Of the expressions listed by Abbie, the only ones I am familiar with (in the U.S.) are "knocked up" and "in trouble," and both refer to an unintended pregnancy.
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"In trouble" certainly means unexpected, and usually relates to an unmarried woman. The others are just slang. As a guess, "up the stick" and possibly "up the spout" may be Au.E
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0 here in Australia we can say "I'm up the duff" meaning "I'm pregnant" 0-

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