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What's the origin of the phrase 'Knocked up'? The ‘impregnate’ meaning of ‘knock up’ was coined in the USA in the late 19th century. There is of course another meaning to ‘knock up’, which is ‘awaken someone by knocking’.
12 Απρ 2014 · From "Knocked up" to mean "woken up", it appears that the meanings split somewhere between the 1920s and the 1940s. Does anyone know the history of how the meanings split and exactly why and how it happened?
11 Φεβ 2023 · The phrase "knocked up," referring to pregnancy, originated with U.S. slavery. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression back to 1813.
28 Απρ 2022 · According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, the phrase "knocked up," meaning pregnant, first appeared in print in 1830! An 1860 slang dictionary defined the term this...
A California lawyer called Johnathan Perk declares in a tweet: ‘The phrase “knocked up”, referring to pregnancy, originated with US slavery. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the expression...
What does the word knock-up mean? There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the word knock-up . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
15 Δεκ 2022 · "arouse by knocking at the door," from knock (v.) + up (adv.). However it is little used… See origin and meaning of knock up.
