gone adj.2
pregnant.
Love’s Labour’s Lost V ii: The party is gone; fellow Hector, she is gone; she is two months on her way [...] the child brags in her belly already. | ||
[ | Love in a Wood Act V: Indeed, I found myself six months gone with Child, and saw no hopes of your getting me a Husband]. | |
[ | Peregrine Pickle (1964) 462: I was six months gone with child]. | |
Real Life in Ireland 125: Peg was seven months gone before she went to chapel. | ||
West Kent Guardian 4 July 6/3: ‘Well now [...] — I’m a gone woman, gintlemen,’ grunted Judy Clampitt. | ||
Our Antipodes III 95: One wretched creature died [...] having been slung up by the waist to the rigging when far gone in pregnancy, by way of punishment for misconduct. | ||
Atlas 19 Feb. n.p.: This was the woman [...] who was nine months gone. | ||
Gas-House McGinty 186: The wife’s two months gone. | ||
(con. 1944) Gallery (1948) 337: The woman was far gone and she gave birth to the kid at midnight. | ||
(con. 1936–46) Winged Seeds (1984) 94: He was a writer, very charming and all that; but furious when he knew she was two months gone. | ||
Breakfast at Tiffany’s 75: But, after all, he knows I’m preggers. Well, I am, darling. Six weeks gone. | ||
Dream of Peter Mann Act I: I was pregnant, seven months gone. | ||
Down All the Days 94: ‘The dirty oul vomit!’ yelled a younger married woman [...] ‘Trying to look up me clothes and me three months gone!’. | ||
Spend, Spend, Spend Scene 24: I was married in white – three months gone with our Stephen. | ||
Eng. Madam 60: It was a boy and it was fully formed, so I must have been further gone than I’d reckoned. | ||
Snapper 53: How long are yeh gone, Sharon? | ||
Beyond Black 122: I was five, six months gone when MacArthur buggered off. |