veg

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

• IPA^(key): /vɛd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

veg (not comparable)

1. Vegetarian.
   • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe‎, 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.

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 , 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, →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 veg ― fruit and vegetables

2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.

• 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.

• veggie, vegie

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.

   • 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood‎, →ISBN, page 7:

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

• vedge

• veg out

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

veg (plural vegs)

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

• “veg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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

1. to fight

• aanveg
• beveg

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

veg

1. weak, yielding

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

veg

1. past of vige

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

• IPA^(key): /¹ʋe̞ːɣ/

veg m

1. way, road

• vei

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

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

1. road
2. way
3. direction

• gate
• sti

• “veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): [ʋeːɡ], [ʋæːɡ]

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

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

1. road
2. way
3. direction

   bane veg - pave the way

• gate
• stig

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

veg

1. present of vega
2. imperative of vega

• “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

veg

1. accusative singular of vegr

From German Weg.

veg (nominative plural vegs)

1. road, way