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veggie

veggie

43 3.0
A plant food like a carrot or lettuce that you eat
  • noun
  • /ˈvɛdʒi/
  • Informal
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  • She prepared a colorful salad filled with a variety of veggies from her garden.
  • a veggie burger
  • eat veggies
  • fruit and veggies

Lean meats, high protein, clean veggies and yeah.

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Examples

  • I got some delicious pasta with the veggies being so healthy.

  • So much easier when my only choices are a veggie burger or a salad.

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  • Hey, man, the veggie dogs are done!

  • Get me another "Veggie Mary," will ya?

  • - Um, do you have a veggie burger?

  • So now let's start with the veggie rice bowl.

  • I'm gonna get the veggie burger.

  • Why is my veggie burger the only burnt object on this grill?

    Fiction book (1999)
  • So fruits, veggies, whole grains are all good.

  • The veggies may not be making my tummy happy, but Veggie Tales always make me happy!

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Synonyms

vegetable
vsveggie
545 1.0

A plant or plant part eaten as food, usually not sweet

is the informal term used in casual speech rather than formal contexts
veg
vsveggie
  • UK
14 7.9

A part of a plant that people eat, for example carrots and peas

is broader and includes seeds among edible plant parts eaten as food

Compounds

A sandwich with a cooked patty made from vegetables or plant ingredients instead of meat

veggie garden
  • Informal
1 2.7

A small area where people grow vegetables for their own use

3.8

A dumpling filled with spicy cooked vegetables often steamed or fried

veggie nutburger
  • Informal
5.5

A meat-free burger made from ground nuts and vegetables

Surface Forms

veggie singular
veggies plural

Morphology

veggie = veg (transparent) = veg + ie

Formed by the informal clipped base 'veg' plus the diminutive/informal suffix '-ie', so the meaning 'vegetable' is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Veggie is a friendly short form of vegetable. Vegetable comes from the old Latin word vegetare, which means 'to grow' or 'be lively', so a veggie is simply the plant food we eat.