with child

Definition

Pregnant.

Etymology

Replaced the earlier Middle English mid childe. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.

Example Sentences

• "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."