different between vig vs veg

English

Etymology

Clipping of vigorish, from Yiddish ???????? (vigrish), from Russian ???????? (výigryš, “winnings”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

vig (countable and uncountable, plural vigs)

1. (slang) Synonym of vigorish (“charge taken on bets”)
2. (US slang, crime) Synonym of vigorish (“interest from a loan, as from a loan shark”)
   • 1973, Martin Scorsese, Mardik Martin (screenplay), Mean Streets, quoted in 2009, Ellis Cashmore, Martin Scorsese's America, page 118,

     “You charged a guy from the neighborhood $1800 vig?” he asks incredulously (“vig” is short for vigorish, meaning a rate of interest from a loan from an illegal moneylender).
3. Synonym of vigorish (“commission, finder's fee, or similar extra charge”)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *uig-, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“to revolve, turn, twist”). Cognate to Old English wice (“patch”) and Old Norse vik (“bight”).

Noun

vig m (indefinite plural vigje, definite singular vigu, definite plural vigjet)

1. stretcher, litter, bier, transition (consisting of beams)

Declension

Derived terms

• vigan

References

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi??/, [??i?]
• Homophone: hvi

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *w?k? (“village; inlet”), cognate with Norwegian, Swedish vik, English wick, Dutch wijk. Borrowed from Latin v?cus.

Noun

vig c (singular definite vigen, plural indefinite vige)

1. inlet (arm of the sea)

Inflection

Derived terms

• mundvig

References

• “vig” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vig

1. imperative of vige

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian vég

Noun

vig n (plural viguri)

1. bolt of fabric

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -i??

Verb

vig

1. imperative of viga.

Adjective

vig (comparative vigare, superlative vigast)

1. (of a person) limber, supple

Anagrams

• giv

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vi?]

Noun

vig (nominative plural vigs)

1. week
2. sennight, sevennight

Declension

English

Etymology 1

Shortened form of various related words including vegetable, vegetarian, and vegetate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?d?/
• Rhymes: -?d?

Adjective

veg (not comparable)

1. vegetarian

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

Noun

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

1. (colloquial) vegetable(s).
   • 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, […]

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

2. (chiefly India) vegetarian food.

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

• veggie, vegie

Derived terms

• meat and two veg

Verb

veg (third-person singular simple present 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.

Alternative forms

• vedge

Related terms

• veg out

Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

veg (plural vegs)

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

References

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

Anagrams

• GeV

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch vechten, from Middle Dutch vechten, from Old Dutch fehtan, from Proto-Germanic *fehtan?, from Proto-Indo-European *pe?-.

Verb

veg (present veg, present participle vegtende, past participle geveg)

1. to fight

Derived terms

• aanveg
• beveg

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse veikr, from Proto-Germanic *waikwaz.

Adjective

veg

1. weak, yielding

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

veg

1. past tense of vige

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• vei

Etymology

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural veger, definite plural vegene)

1. road
2. way
3. direction

Derived terms

See also

• gate
• sti

References

• “veg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????], [?æ??] (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-. Akin to English way.

Noun

veg m (definite singular vegen, indefinite plural vegar, definite plural vegane)

1. road
2. way
3. direction

   bane veg - pave the way

Derived terms

See also

• gate
• stig

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

veg

1. present of vega
2. imperative of vega

References

• “veg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Volapük

Etymology

From German Weg.

Noun

veg (nominative plural vegs)

1. road, way

Declension

Westrobothnian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e??/, /?e???/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vegr, from Proto-Germanic *wegaz, from Proto-Indo-European *we??-.

Noun

veg m (definite vägjen, plural vega)

1. road, way

   Han knallä säg hejmät vägjen

   He slowly walked home along the road.

Derived terms

See also

• göto
• stig

Etymology 2

Verb

veg

1. present singular of vega
2. imperative singular of vega