Vegans vs Veg - What's the difference?
vegans | 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 nouns the difference between vegans and veg
is that vegans is while veg is end.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