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vegelate

vegelate noun: chocolate containing vegetable fat (not a permitted ingredient in parts of the European Union).

Noun

vegelate (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory, rare) Chocolate containing vegetable fat (not a permitted ingredient in parts of the European Union).
    • France and Belgium led the drive for British chocolate to be renamed 'vegelate' before it could be sold abroad, but they lost that battle. Now an updated EU chocolate directive obliges all EU countries to accept all chocolate[…]2005, John MacDonald, Andrew Bowden, Dare We Trust Them?: A New Vision for Europe, page 151

Origin of vegelate

Blend of vegetable + chocolate.

Questions about vegelate

What does vegelate mean?
Vegelate means chocolate containing vegetable fat (not a permitted ingredient in parts of the European Union).
What part of speech is vegelate?
Vegelate is a noun.

Words near vegelate in the dictionary

  1. vegeculturalists
  2. vegeculture
  3. vegecultures
  4. veged
  5. veged out
  6. vegelate
  7. vegemite
  8. vegemites
  9. Vegemitini
  10. Vegemitinis
  11. vegephobia

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