veg

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English

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Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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veg (not comparable)

  1. Vegetarian.
    • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe[1], Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120:
      The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
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Noun

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veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

  1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
    • 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, page 185:
      [] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
    • 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:
      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??!
    fruit and vegfruit and vegetables
  2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.
Usage notes
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  • 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.
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Verb

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veg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)

  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.
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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veg (plural vegs)

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

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Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

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Verb

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veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

  1. to fight

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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

Adjective

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veg

  1. weak, yielding
Inflection
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Inflection of veg
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular veg vegere vegest2
Indefinite neuter singular vegt vegere vegest2
Plural vege vegere vegest2
Definite attributive1 vege vegere vegeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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veg

  1. past of vige

Jamtish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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veg m

  1. way, road

Declension

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Noun

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veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ʋeːɡ], [ʋæːɡ]

Etymology 1

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From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Akin to English way.

Noun

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veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction
    bane veg - pave the way
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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veg

  1. present of vega
  2. imperative of vega

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Old Norse

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Noun

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veg

  1. accusative singular of vegr

Volapük

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Etymology

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From German Weg.

Noun

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veg (nominative plural vegs)

  1. road, way
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:
      E bi pinunedoms in drim nemü God ad no gegolön lü ‚Herodes’, ädatävoms ve veg votik lü län oksik.
      But they were given a warning in a dream in the name of God not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.

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