with child
prep_phraseEtymology
Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.
- derived from mid childe
Definitions
Pregnant.
- I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting.
- [N]othing vvas more frightful to me than his Careſſes, and the Apprehenſions of being vvith Child again by him, vvas ready to throvv me into Fits; […]
- Worf: I was not aware you had a son. Lursa: I do not. But I am with child.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA