Veg

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vÉ›dÊ’/
• Rhymes: -É›dÊ’

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

Full definition of veg

Adjective

1. vegetarian
• 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern EuropeThe food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

Noun

1. (colloquial) vegetable.
• 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, ...
• 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory... 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

1. (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to restAfter working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
• 2002, w, Flesh and Blood
2. And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

Related terms

• veg out

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

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

Anagrams

• GeV