Veggie

//ˈvɛd͡ʒi// adj, noun, slang

adj, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A vegetable. informal

    "There was lots of rice, at least 20 different "veggies" and all kinds of soups."

  2. 2
    edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant wordnet
  3. 3
    A vegetarian. informal

    "Vegetarian/vegan meals at most colleges are only pretty average. They have a long way to go to provide nutritionally adequate and tasty food for veggies."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians; without meat. informal

    "One place was too crowded last time, another too expensive, a third she liked but he thought too "veggie.""

  2. 2
    Vegetable-like, vegetal

    "So we actually proved that the old folklore about a dense canopy leading to very veggie wines was true, Noble said."

Synonyms

All synonyms
vegvegvegetablevegetableveggoveggo

Antonyms

All antonyms
fruit

Example

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"Did you really order sweet potato fries to go with your veggie burger?"

Etymology

Clipping of vegetable and/or vegetarian + -ie.

Related phrases

veggie burgerveggie dogveggie garden

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