vegとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /vɛd͡ʒ/
• 韻: -ɛdʒ

形容詞

veg (not comparable)

1. Vegetarian.
   • 2007, Tom Masters, Eastern Europe‎, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, page 120:

     The food's lip-smackingly good with some veg options, and there's a ham and eggs breakfast for 3KM.

派生語

名詞

veg (countable and uncountable, plural vegs or veges or veg)

1. (colloquial) Vegetable(s).
   • 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 167:

     She paused, still clutching her fork, and pushed back a lock of hair with the crook of her wrist. "It'll help if one of you takes charge of the veg. and the other helps with the plates," she said.

   • 2002, Tom Grahn, "Food compositions and methods of preparing the same", US Patent 6814975 [2], page 5,

     Secondary foodstuffs are exemplified by the following prepared dishes: vegetarian steaks, gratinated vegs, oven made lasagne, fish and ham with potatoes, […]

   • 2004, Marion Halligan, The Taste of Memory‎, →ISBN, page 185:

     […] meals of meat and three veg were mostly the same three veg, beans peas potatoes, or peas carrots potatoes.

   • 2007 August 31', Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 2:

     Ok, Question 40. Do you get your five fruit and veg?
     Ohh, I mean I certainly try to... I would say, I would say I probably do.
     A day.
     A WHAT??!

   fruit and veg ― fruit and vegetables

2. (chiefly India) Vegetarian food.

使用する際の注意点

• 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.

同意語

• veggie, vegie

派生語

動詞

veg (third-person singular simple present vegs or vegges or veges, present participle vegging or veging, simple past and past participle vegged or veged)

1. (colloquial) to vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest

   After working hard all week, I decided to stay home and veg on Saturday.

   • 2002, Jonathan Kellerman, Flesh and Blood‎, →ISBN, page 7:

     And he just sits and vegges on the TV, munches nachos, whatever.

別の表記

• vedge

関連する語

• veg out

語源 2

Coined in a 1948 paper in the American Journal of Psychology by Robert S. Harper and S. S. Stevens.[5], [6]

名詞

veg (plural vegs)

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

参照

• “veg”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• GeV