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. |