Egged vs Vegged - What's the difference?
egged | vegged |
(egg)
(zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
(countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
(uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
(biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
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A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
(mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
(NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.
To throw eggs at.
To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
(veg)
vegetarian
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(colloquial) vegetable.
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(colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
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(psychology) A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams.
As verbs the difference between egged and vegged
is that egged is (egg) while vegged is (veg).egged
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*egg
English
(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
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Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.
Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * egg-nog, eggnog * egg-shell, eggshell * * * * * * * * * * * * * scrambled egg, scrambled eggs *See also
* caviar * roeEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Derived terms
* 1000 English basic words ----vegged
English
Verb
(head)veg
English
Etymology 1
Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.Adjective
(-)- The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.
Noun
(en-noun)- Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs , oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes,
- meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg , beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.
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.Synonyms
* veggieDerived terms
* meat and two vegVerb
(en-verb)- 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.
Etymology 2
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(195304)66%3A2%3C304%3AANCTVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Y