Vulgar words in Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 (Page 1)
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My dear I.:-- Yesterday, what with my breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I was, as the fashionable saying is, "fairly knocked up."
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I certainly find several here for which I can perceive no more precedent in the well of "English undefiled," than for some of ours; for instance, this being "knocked up," which is variously inflected, as, for example, in the form of a participial adjective, as a "knocking up" affair; in the form of a noun, as when they say "such a person has got quite a knocking up," and so on.