DEFINITION: v., To enthusiastically congratulate a woman on her pending motherhood, only to be told that you are mistaken. n., The dashed expectations and pregnant silence that follows mistaken congratulations.

Pregnopause

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Pronunciation: pregg-no-paws

Sentence: When I complemented Estelle on how pregnancy agreed with her, she said nothing, glared and took another bite of her eclair while there was a long pregnopause.

Etymology: From the Russian pregnyet meaning not pregnant.

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