veg

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

• IPA^(key): /vɛdʒ/
• Rhymes: -ɛdʒ

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 (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, page 185:

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

   fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables

• 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

• meat and two veg

veg (third-person singular simple present vegges or veges, 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, 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” (US) / “veg” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

• GeV

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

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 main entry.

veg

1. past tense of vige

• 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/

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

veg

1. present of vega
2. imperative of vega

• “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From German Weg.

veg (plural vegs)

1. road, way

• IPA^(key): /ʋeːɣ/, /ʋe̞ːɣ/

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

veg m (definite vägjen, plural vega)

1. road, way

   Han knallä säg hejmät vägjen

   He slowly walked home along the road.

• göto
• stig

veg

1. present singular of vega
2. imperative singular of vega