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veg | vog |

As nouns the difference between veg and vog

is that veg is end while vog is voice.

veg

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Adjective

(-)
  • vegetarian
  • * '>citation
    • The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (colloquial) vegetable.
  • * 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,
  • * '>citation
    • 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
    * veggie
    Derived terms
    * meat and two veg

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest
    • After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.
  • * '>citation
    • And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.
    Related terms
    * veg out

    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

    Noun

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

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    vog

    English

    (wikipedia vog)

    Noun

    (-)
  • Air pollution caused by substances (such as sulphur dioxide) emitted by a volcano.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 40:
    • On humid days water vapour combines with the sulphurous emanations to produce an acrid mist known as vog .

    See also

    * (l)

    Anagrams

    * (l) , ----