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English

Etymology 1

Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛd͡ʒ

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

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

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

  1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
    • 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 , page 5,
      Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes,
    • 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory‎, →ISBN, page 185:
      […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
    • 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:
      Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg?
      Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do.
      A day.
      A WHAT??!
    fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables
  2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.
Usage notes
  • In colloquial speech this is usually pluralized simply as "veg".
  • In writing this may or may not be followed by a period to mark it as an abbreviation.
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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.
    • 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood‎, →ISBN, page 7:
      And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.
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Etymology 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.,

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

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

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtaną, from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ-.

Pronunciation

Verb

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

  1. to fight

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

veg

  1. weak, yielding
Inflection
Inflection of veg
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular veg vegere vegest2
Indefinite neuter singular vegt vegere vegest2
Plural vege vegere vegest2
Definite attributive1 vege vegere vegeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veg

  1. past of vige

Jamtish

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

veg m

  1. way, road

Declension

  Declension of veg (strong short a-stem)
masculine singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative veg veg'enn vagar vagan
dative veg veg'a vagar vegum
compound-genitive veg ― vaga ―
vocative veg ― veger, vagar ―
Vocative plural unattested.

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-. Akin to English way.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)

  1. road
  2. way
  3. direction
    bane veg - pave the way
Derived terms

See also

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

veg

  1. present of vega
  2. imperative of vega

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Old Norse

Noun

veg

  1. accusative singular of vegr

Volapük

Etymology

From German Weg.

Noun

veg (nominative plural vegs)

  1. road, way

Declension

declension of veg
singular plural
nominative veg vegs
genitive vega vegas
dative vege veges
accusative vegi vegis
vocative 1 o veg! o vegs!
predicative 2 vegu vegus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
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