poisoned adj.
pregnant.
Cupid’s Whirligig V vii: Was I not marryed yester day? ... like a young marryed woman that’s poisoned before shee is baud, I begin to long alreadie ... to be a bed with my husband. | ||
‘Excellent New Medley’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1871) I 14: Sure Meg is poyson’d for she swels. | ||
Laughing Mercury 8-16 Sept. 184: She [...] being stung very happily in a place that nothing endangered her life; some are of the judgement that she is poysoned; others that the sweling may go down again in a little time. | ||
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Poyson’d, Big with Child. | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
My Secret Life (1966) I 121: Martha be poisoned [...] she be in the family way, we call it poisoned in these parts, when a girl ben’t married. | ||
Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.]. |
In phrases
to have a potruberant stomach.
Q&A 143: ‘Patrolman James Mullins, of the poisoned pup belly, late of the Twenty-third Precinct, a notorious thief and bagman’. |