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veg

adj
/vɛd͡ʒ/

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. Vegetarian.

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

  2. 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.
    • […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.

  3. vegetarian food.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. to vegetate

      to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest

      • After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
      • And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

meat and two veg, veg box, veg-head

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for veg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA