veg

See also vég

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vɛdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

1. vegetarian
   • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe^[1], Lonely Planet, ISBN 1741044766, page 120:

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

Noun

veg (plural vegs or veg)

1. (colloquial) vegetable.
   • 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [2], page 5,

     Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]

   • 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory^[3], ISBN 1741143128, page 185:

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

Usage notes

• In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg."
• In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.

Synonyms

• veggie

Derived terms

• meat and two veg

Verb

veg (third-person singular simple present vegges, present participle vegging, simple past and past participle vegged)

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.

   • 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood^[4], ISBN 034541389X, page 7:

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

Related terms

• veg out

Translations

vegetate

• Spanish: vegetar (es)

Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.[5], [6]

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

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

Anagrams

• GeV

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Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

veg (neuter vegt, definite and plural vege, comparative vegere, superlative vegest)

1. weak, yielding

Verb

veg

1. past of vige

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Norwegian

Alternative forms

• (Bokmål) vei

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Noun

veg

1. road
2. way
3. direction

Inflection

    Inflection of veg

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	veg	vegen	veger	vegene
Nynorsk m	veg	vegen	vegar	vegane

See also

• gate
• sti
• stig (Nynorsk)