veg

«veg» in Mova's school dictionary: short for vegetable or vegetables: meat and two veg… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (veg — informal, uncountable or plural); verb (veg out, vegs out, vegged out, vegging out — informal)

meaning for a pupil

1) (UK, Australia, NZ, informal) Veg is short for vegetable or vegetables: meat and two veg, fruit and veg. tree →

2) (informal) To veg (out) is to relax and do nothing much, for example lying on the sofa. tree →

sense in the lessons

Common clipped word in everyday British and Australian talk: «Eat your veg!», «a fruit and veg stall». In health lessons, eat plenty of fruit and veg. «Veg out» is casual slang for lazing about. In maths problems, «a box of veg» is counted like other food.

examples

• Eat your veg or there's no pudding! tree →
• We bought fruit and veg at the market. tree →
• Sunday lunch is meat and two veg. tree →
• After school I just want to veg out in front of the TV. tree →
• She vegged out on the beach all day. tree →
• Try to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day. tree →

note

Pronounced «vedj» (rhymes with «edge»). Informal: in formal writing say «vegetables». It has no plural form: «lots of veg». Past of «veg out» is «vegged out» (double g). In the US people say «veggies».

In the corpora

• You'll weed my veg patch every Saturday for a month.» By the fourth Saturday Kieran knows a carrot from a weed.
• At Mum's it's veg and lights out at half eight.
• Fruit and veg of different colours give different vitamins and minerals, so eating many colours gives a good mix.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «veg» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.