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veg¹

  • /vɛd͡ʒ/

Rhymes with -ɛdʒ

Where it comes from

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

adjective

  1. not comparable Vegetarian. The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

noun vegs · veges · veg

  1. colloquial, countable, uncountable Vegetable(s). 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.
  2. India, countable, uncountable Vegetarian food.

Similar: veggie, vegie

verb vegs · vegges · veges · vegging · veging · 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.

veg²

Where it comes from

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

noun vegs

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

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: vegetable, carbo, chowderhead, matic, vegetables, veggie, ovovegetarian, lactovegetarian, satvik, vegetized, panivorous, maigre, vinegared, soyed, meatbally, printanier

noun

Similar: veggie, vegie

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verb vegetate

Españolvegetar

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@misc{veg_2026,
  title = {veg},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/veg},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}