English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɛdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

Adjective

veg ‎(not comparable)

1. vegetarian
   • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe, Lonely Planet, ISBN 1741044766, page 120:

     The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

Noun

veg ‎(plural vegs or veg)

1. (colloquial) vegetable.
   • 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 1741143128, page 185:

     […] 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

veg ‎(third-person singular simple present vegges, present participle vegging, simple past and past participle 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.

   • 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, ISBN 034541389X, page 7:

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

Alternative forms

• vedge

Related terms

• veg out

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

veg ‎(plural vegs)

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

Anagrams

• GeV

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vechten.

Verb

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

1. to fight

Danish

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

veg

1. weak, yielding

Inflection

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

veg

1. past tense of vige

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• vei

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. road
2. way
3. direction

Derived terms

• midtvegs
• vegkant

See also

• gate
• sti

References

• “veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

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

Noun

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

1. road
2. way
3. direction

Derived terms

• midtvegs
• vegkant

See also

• gate
• stig

References

• “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Etymology

From German Weg.

Noun

veg ‎(plural vegs)

1. road, way

Declension