Veg
adj, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 vegetable(s). colloquial, countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
- 3 edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant wordnet
- 4 vegetarian food. India, countable, uncountable
- 1 to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest colloquial
"After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday."
- 1 Vegetarian. not-comparable
"The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM."
Example
More examples"In India, restaurants typically have veg and non-veg options."
Etymology
Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
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
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