Vegged vs Verged - What's the difference?
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(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.
(verge)
A rod or staff of office, e.g. of a verger.
# The stick or wand with which persons were formerly admitted tenants, by holding it in the hand and swearing fealty to the lord. Such tenants were called tenants by the verge .
An edge or border.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Even though we go to the extreme verge of possibility to invent a supposition favourable to it, the theoryimplies an absurdity.
*(Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)
*:But on the horizon's verge descried, / Hangs, touched with light, one snowy sail.
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*:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
# The grassy area between the sidewalk and the street; a tree lawn.
#(lb) An extreme limit beyond which something specific will happen.
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(lb) The phallus.
#(lb) The external male organ of certain mollusks, worms, etc.
An old measure of land: a virgate or yardland.
A circumference; a circle; a ring.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:The inclusive verge / Of golden metal that must round my brow.
(lb) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
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(lb) The edge of the tiling projecting over the gable of a roof.
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(lb) The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement.
To be or come very close; to border; to approach.
As verbs the difference between vegged and verged
is that vegged is past tense of veg while verged is past tense of verge.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
* ----verged
English
Verb
(head)verge
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , of unknown origin. Earliest attested sense in English is now-obsolete meaning "male member, penis" (c.1400). Modern sense is from the notion of 'within the verge' (1509, also as (etyl) dedeinz la verge ), i.e. "subject to the Lord High Steward's authority" (as symbolized by the rod of office), originally a 12-mile radius round the royal court, which sense shifted to "the outermost edge of an expanse or area."Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (strip of land between street and sidewalk) see list at (m)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (compare versus); strongly influenced by the above noun.Verb
(verg)- Eating blowfish verges on insanity.
