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| 275.1 | Maybe... | MODEL::YARBROUGH | | Mon Nov 17 1986 10:33 | 4 |
| > Was "smarter" ever used colloquially to mean "pregnant"?
I don't know, but am reminded of the "Music Man" song, "The Sadder but
Wiser Girl for Me".
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| 275.2 | Any German speakers know? | LYMPH::LAMBERT | Note(d) Author | Mon Nov 17 1986 11:11 | 5 |
| I seem to remember hearing somewhere that "schmart" (or something like
that) is the German word for "pregnant". I have heard "smart" used as
a term for pregnancy, but long ago and very infrequently.
-- Sam
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| 275.3 | schwanker madchen | BUCKY::MPALMER | | Tue Nov 18 1986 10:10 | 3 |
| The Deutsch for "pregnant" is "schwanker" I believe.
MP
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| 275.4 | | BISTRO::TIMMER | Rien Timmer, Valbonne. | Wed Nov 19 1986 14:11 | 2 |
| Schwanger m�dchen, I think.
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| 275.5 | The German: | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Wed Nov 19 1986 14:26 | 6 |
| "Schwanger M�dchen" is "pregnant girl". "Tr�chtig" refers to animal
pregnancy. Some colloquial phrases that also mean pregnant are
"Unheil schwanger" (big with disaster), and "hochschwanger" (VERY
pregnant). Pregnancy is "Schwangerschaft".
Now that you know all that, what do you do with it?
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| 275.6 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | The Mad Armenian | Fri Nov 21 1986 06:43 | 4 |
| The concept of "VERY pregnant" makes me wonder is there's a
German word for "a little bit pregnant". :-)
--- jerry
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| 275.7 | | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Fri Nov 21 1986 13:06 | 3 |
| re: .5
Sure. "little bit pregnant" = "Kleine schwanger"
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| 275.8 | | BUCKY::MPALMER | | Fri Nov 21 1986 15:43 | 3 |
| Wouldn't that be "small pregnant"? Perhaps "ein bisschen schwanger"?
Hey what about "smarter" though?!?!?
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| 275.9 | | CALS::GELINEAU | | Tue Jul 06 1993 11:10 | 2 |
| "quick" was used to mean pregnant.
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| 275.10 | base bite = does smarter mean pregnant | VAXUUM::T_PARMENTER | Unsung Superstar | Mon Mar 28 1994 14:50 | 2 |
| What about the calypso song: "Man Smart, Woman Smarter"?
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