with child

Replaced earlier mid child. Compare Danish and Swedish med barn.

with child

1. (euphemistic) Pregnant.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The VVinters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     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.

   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edlin, […]; W[illiam] Mears, […]; J. Brotherton, […]; C. King, and J. Stags, […], published 1722, OCLC 745118774, page 20:

     Nothing was more frightful to me than his caresses, and the apprehensions of being with child again by him was ready to throw me into fits.

   • 1999, Rebecca Hourwich Reyher, Zulu Woman:

     I should have had two children, but I find myself with only one. Yet he spends his time with other women who are already with child.

• with young