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- vwsung18t
...say knocked up for getting pregnant?
- iwlyfel0
thats a question for yahoo answers
i love that site
- chaztoo0
because it's cool, and it makes church ladies huff indignantly.
- Engage0
somthing to do with having beans flicked up them
- mpfree0
Eric Partridge's big reference book "A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day" labels "knocked up," with the meaning of pregnant, as "low" and says it comes from the following sense of "knock": "(Of a man) to have sexual intercourse (with): low colloquial: late C. 16-20." In another entry, "knocking" (obsolete) is defined as sexual intercourse without being limited to the male partner's point of view. This book identifies "knocked up" as belonging to the 19th and 20th centuries and as mostly U.S. So the expression is less classy than standard English but stops short of being vulgar slang.
- iwlyfel0
wow thats actually more complicated than i thought it would be
- mpfree0
'knocking boots' comes to mind
knock, knock baby, give me some nectar!
- mirrorball0
up the duff!
- Bottlerocket0
Probably the same reason that a brothel has also been called 'Knock shops' in the past