Meanings
veg1
- 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
- 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 1672002, 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 185Ok, 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 - IndiacountableuncountableVegetarian food.
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
veg2
plural vegs
- 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
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.
Full word history & related roots →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
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Polish wegetować
- wegetowaćvegetate
Spanish vegetar
- vegetarvegetate
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with veg
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veg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/veg
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