veg

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/vɛd͡ʒ/

adjective

Vegetarian.

“After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.”

Less commonScrabble 7

Meanings

veg1

adjectiveveg (not comparable)
  1. not comparableVegetarian.

    The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

    2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120
nounveg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

plural vegs · plural veges

  1. colloquialcountableuncountableVegetable(s).

    fruit and veg

    fruit and vegetables

    4 more examples

    She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist. "It'll help if one of you takes charge of the veg. and the other helps with the plates," she said.

    1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 167

    2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ, page 5, Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]

    […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.

    2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory, →ISBN, page 185

    Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg? Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do. A day. A WHAT??!

    2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2
  2. IndiacountableuncountableVegetarian food.
verbveg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)

present singular third person vegs · present singular third person vegges · present singular third person veges · participle present vegging · participle present veging · participle past vegged · past vegged · participle past veged · past veged · alternative vedge

  1. colloquialto vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest

    After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.

    1 more example

    And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

    2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, →ISBN, page 7

veg2

nounveg (plural vegs)

plural vegs

  1. human sciencesA unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounedible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Broader
producegreen goodsgreen groceries

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

veg · adjective, noun, verb

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

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veg · noun

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(194807)61%3A3%3C343%3AAPSOWA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9556(195304)66%3A2%3C304%3AANCTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y

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Translations

Polish wegetować
  • wegetowaćvegetate
Spanish vegetar
  • vegetarvegetate

Rhymes & wordplay

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