veggie

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veggie

  • /ˈvɛd͡ʒi/

Rhymes with -ɛdʒi

Where it comes from

Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie.

noun veggies

  1. informal A vegetable. There was lots of rice, at least 20 different "veggies" and all kinds of soups.
  2. informal A vegetarian. Vegetarian/vegan meals at most colleges are only pretty average. They have a long way to go to provide nutritionally adequate and tasty food for veggies.

    Similar: veggo

Similar: veg

adjective more veggie · most veggie

  1. informal Vegetarian; not eating meat; suitable for vegetarians; without meat. One place was too crowded last time, another too expensive, a third she liked but he thought too "veggie."
  2. Vegetable-like, vegetal. So we actually proved that the old folklore about a dense canopy leading to very veggie wines was true, Noble said.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: vegetable, veggiedog, shamburger, veggie dog, veggie burger, vegetable juice, vegelate, sabji, sabzi, beanburger, sauce, gardenburger, vegetable soup, runner bean, courgette, zucchino

noun

Similar: veg

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noun vegetable

Españolvegetal, verdura

noun vegetarian

Españolvegetariano, vegetariana
DeutschVeggie

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@misc{veggie_2026,
  title = {veggie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/veggie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}