Timeline for What's the difference between "veggie" and "vegetable"?
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| Sep 6, 2018 at 10:21 | comment | added | Jessica B | @user568458 Veggie lasagna is described as veggie because it is vegetarian, not because it is vegetables. Usually I would expect it to contain quorn or similar. If it was made primarily of vegetables, I would call it vegetable lasagna. | |
| Sep 6, 2018 at 7:46 | comment | added | user72839 | I've also heard the word 'veggie' meaning someone on vegetable diet... | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 22:39 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | "Veggie" is american slang for vegetarian as well, but I don't like it | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 21:02 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | "Meat and two veg" is a British slang expression for "penis and testicles". | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 20:31 | comment | added | user2752467 | I'm American and anecdotally I can say veggie is sometimes used as an adjective to describe people that are vegetarians. It tends to have a bit of a tongue-in-cheek element to it, and it's certainly less common than using it to describe foods. | |
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 14:00 | comment | added | user81621 | @Carcer Agreed, while veg is overall probably the most used term I can honestly say as a Scotsman I hear "veggies" a lot more. Us lot seem to have a knack for that though (tatties, jobbies, jakies being other common ones) | |
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| Sep 5, 2018 at 13:27 | comment | added | Carcer | The UK does have a lot more regional variation in dialect than outsiders seem to think, so it's possible that the word "veggie" meaning vegetable is more common in some areas than others. I'll concede that "veg" is probably a more common abbreviation for vegetable, though. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 13:08 | comment | added | WendyG | @user568458, i also think "eat your veggies" sounds Australian to me, something heard on neighbours, or maybe because of veggimite. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | Chronocidal | @SeanBurton In the UK, I have never heard "veggie" used as "vegetable", only as "vegetarian" - so, a "veggie burger" includes things like mushroom and/or nut based faux-meat products (e.g. Quorn, among others), and is a broader group of which a "vegetable burger" is a specific subset. Important to keep in mind when reading menus! | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 12:54 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | "Eat" your veg is what my mother used to say c. 1955. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 12:08 | comment | added | user56reinstatemonica8 | @MrLister I think you're right, for example we say "Meat and two veg" ("veg" is a mass noun like "meat", pronounced "vedj"), meaning one portion of meat plus two portions of vegetables; and we say "veggie lasagna" to mean a lasagna containing veg and no meat. "Eat your veggies" would be understood (maybe someone would joke about eating a vegetarian...), but sounds to me like something an Australian would say, or maybe something adults would say to children to make the veg sound fun; more common in UK is "Eat your greens" or "Eat your veg". Answer looks right to me. | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:46 | comment | added | Mr Lister | Call me uneducated, but I thought that British informal for the noun "vegetable" was "veg", while the adjective was "veggie". | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:32 | comment | added | Carcer | As British vegetarian I would second that use of the term in BrE could either mean vegetarian or vegetable, depending on context, and neither is a particularly unusual use of the word, but it is definitely informal (I admit I personally hate the word "veggie" in either use - it sounds infantile to me). | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 11:07 | comment | added | Sean Burton | I'm not sure I buy this differentiation. Yes, veggie can be used to refer to a vegetarian or vegetarian diet, but I think it is just as equally likely in British English to refer to vegetables themselves, with the context making it obvious which one is meant. i.e. "eat your veggies" would be a pretty common usage and nobody would think you were asking them to eat a vegetarian... | |
| Sep 5, 2018 at 7:36 | vote | accept | holydragon | ||
| Sep 5, 2018 at 6:31 | history | answered | Enguroo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |