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Vinony

veg

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /vɛd͡ʒ/

adj

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

  1. Vegetarian.

    “The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.”

noun

Etymology: 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

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

verb

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

  1. 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.”