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^[1], 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 [2], 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^[3], →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^[4], →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.[5], [6]

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.

• GeV

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

From e +‎ beg from Old Irish a becc (“a little, a while; at all”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /veɡ/

veg m (genitive singular [please provide], no plural)

1. none, nothing, (with negative concord) anything

   cha daag eh veg dou

   he left nothing for me

   as lurg ooilley shen t'ad veg share

   and after all that they are no better

   my t'ou jeeaghyn fo'n lhiabbee, lhisagh oo jerkal dy gheddyn veg

   if you are looking under the bed then you shouldn't expect to find anything

   • 1819, Yn Vible Casherick, Galatianee 1:19:

     Agh veg jeh ny ostyllyn elley cha vaik mee, agh Jamys braar y Chiarn.

     But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.

• 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
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: II:

     E bi pinunedoms in drim nemü God ad no gegolön lü ‚Herodes’, ädatävoms ve veg votik lü län oksik.

     But they were given a warning in a dream in the name of God not to go back to Herod, and returned to their own country by a different way.