Vegged vs Legged - What's the difference?
vegged | legged |
(veg)
vegetarian
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(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,
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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.
having a certain type or number of legs
(leg)
As verbs the difference between vegged and legged
is that vegged is (veg) while legged is (leg).As an adjective legged is
having a certain type or number of legs.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
Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----legged
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
(-)- Many of the big African spiders are hairy-legged .