What are some euphemisms for being pregnant that you know of?

Knocked up

In the family way

Baby on board

Preggers

“Expecting.” “Expecting what?”

I’ve never much cared for pregnancy euphemisms—most of them sound demeaning to me. Especially the latest that’s popping up all over the Web: “baby bump.”

Having a bun in the oven

I dunno if those are euphemisms or cliches.

Preggo

Suing Trojan

The rabbit died.

Having a bun in the oven is the first one that popped to mind.

[Edit: You gave us that one. Sorry. So, I’ll add something my mother used to say, “She’s got a thyroid condition.” My mother wasn’t much on talking about sexual matters, and I think the neck was as close as she could get to the nether regions.]

Expecting a bundle of joy.
Feeling like a broken typewriter.
With child.
Eating for two.

I thought euphemisms were supposed to be positive. “Preggers” ? really?

How about: “With child”

Up the duff.

Read the question dickhead…

@Seelix I had to look up the phrase, “Feeling like a broken typewriter.” I’d never heard that one. I laughed outloud.

Mother to be

Mr.

Same idea as “broken typewriter,” apparently.

Knocked-up

@Seelix I don’t get the typewriter one… I may not be very familiar with typewriters. Or maybe I’m just oblivious. Explain please?

@papayalily – A broken typewriter that’s skipped a period!
Like @Jeruba‘s Mister (missed her) period. :D

@Seelix Omg, it’s a grammar joke! I love it!

(I have a sad feeling that typewriter jokes are doomed to the dustbin of history, along with jokes about the hands of a clock, telephones with dials, cars woth rumble seats and running boards, and high-button shoes.)

@Jeruba I know what all of those are except rumble seats and running boards

@Jeruba What’s a typewriter? :P

@papayalily Rumble seats are seats that fold into the back of a hot rod. Running boards are a sort of ledge that would run the length of the doors on a car, purpose unknown. My dad’s family would pen the dog in on one when they went camping.
A lot of the large GM SUVs like the Escalade and the Suburban have something similar to a running board.

I know back in the early days of American TV, the word “pregnant” couldn’t be used, so for the episode of I Love Lucy where she tells Ricky she’s ‘spectin’, it’s entitled Lucy Is Enceinte.

Car with running board and rumble seat. (@papayalily, haven’t you seen Bonnie and Clyde?)

I don’t know what the real purpose of the running board was, but I do remember stepping up onto it to climb into my grandfather’s old car. I was sorry when they went away. I see from Google Images that one main use seems to have been as something to stand or sit on while posing for photographs .

@Jeruba Wiki says:
”...It aids entry, especially into high vehicles. Typical of vintage cars which had much higher ground clearances than today’s cars, it is also used as a fashion statement on vehicles that would not require it. Sometimes they can also be structural parts of the vehicle.
“Running boards may also be used to stand on while the vehicle is moving, though this risks injury.”
My dog, but we’ve gone off-topic!

Carrying passengers is off topic? But “carrying a passenger” is a plausible figure of speech for being pregnant. And that’s what rumble seats are for.

@Jeruba Hey, it’s in Social. Who cares?