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veg en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /vɛd͡ʒ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Vegetarian.
   • 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:

Deriveds

veg-curious · nonveg · non-veg

veg en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /vɛd͡ʒ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (colloquial, countable, uncountable) Vegetable(s).
   • fruit and veg
   • 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
   • 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:
   • 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:
2. (India, countable, uncountable) Vegetarian food.

Forms

Deriveds

veg box · meat and two veg · veg-head

Synonyms

veggie · vegie

veg en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /vɛd͡ʒ/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
   • After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
   • And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever. 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, →ISBN, page 7:

Forms

Relateds

veg out

Translations (2)

pl wegetować (vegetate) · es vegetar (vegetate)

veg en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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