veg
nounEtymology Clipping of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.
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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:
- 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 http://www.google.com/patents?id=spsQAAAAEBAJ, page 5, Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]
3 more examples
- […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory, →ISBN, page 185:
- 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??!2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2
- fruit and veg
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India vegetarian food.
- Synonyms
- veggie, vegie
- Derived terms
- meat and two veg, veg box, veg-head