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veg

/vɛd͡ʒ/

veg adjective: vegetarian.

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

  1. Vegetarian.
    • The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120

Noun (1)

veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

  1. (colloquial) Vegetable(s).
    • 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.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 167
    • Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ, page 5
  2. (India) Vegetarian food.

Verb

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.
    • And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood, →ISBN, page 7

Noun (2)

veg (plural vegs)

  1. A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.

veg meaning in Kannada

veg in Kannada

ಸಸ್ಯಾಹಾರ, ಸಸ್ಯಾಹಾರಿ

Examples of veg in a sentence

  • After an exhausting day at work, I would veg out in front of the TV.
  • You can hasselback any root veg and they look great on the plate.
  • Anup replied, "I like veg but I don't want to spoil my non-vegetarian menus, especially chicken-65."

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Synonyms of veg

Forms of veg

Noun
pluralvegs
pluralveges
pluralveg
Verb
third-person singular presentvegs
third-person singular presentvegges
third-person singular presentveges
present participlevegging
present participleveging
past participlevegged
pastvegged
past participleveged
pastveged
alternative formvedge

Plural of veg: vegs or veges

Origin of veg

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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Questions about veg

What does veg mean?
Veg means vegetarian.
What is veg in Kannada?
Veg in Kannada is ಸಸ್ಯಾಹಾರ, ಸಸ್ಯಾಹಾರಿ. See Veg meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is veg?
Veg can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce veg?
Veg is pronounced /vɛd͡ʒ/.

Words near veg in the dictionary

  1. veesick
  2. veesicks
  3. veetol
  4. veetols
  5. Vefsn
  6. veg
  7. veg box
  8. veg boxes
  9. veg out
  10. veg'able
  11. veg*n

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Adapted from Wiktionary: veg (page history and authors); veg (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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