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Veg
Definitions
- 1 Vegetarian. not-comparable
"The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM."
- 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."
Etymology
Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
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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