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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
veggie
I.noun
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▪ Great for veggies and meat-eaters alike.
▪ The veggies were cooked to perfection, with no distracting crunchiness to contend with, and the flavors blended together gloriously.
▪ The animals and veggies still were judged according to the strictest standards of individual achievement.
▪ The Little Sprouts sneak out of the house with some extra veggies.
II.adjective
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▪ Feeling a bit of a jape coming on, they went in and ordered a veggie omelette.
▪ Princes has introduced a new veggie range of spreads and pates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
veggie

slang shortening of vegetable (n.), 1976; earlier vegie (1955). Related: Veggies.

Wiktionary
veggie

a. 1 (context informal English) vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians 2 Vegetable-like. n. 1 (context informal English) A vegetable. 2 (context informal English) A vegetarian.

WordNet
veggie

n. edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant [syn: vegetable]

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Usage examples of "veggie".

I tried to pretend he was there on his own business, even tried to drum up anger or indifference, but neither came, and then he had warm bagels and veggie cheese and lox arranged on paper plates on the empty end of the worktable, and it was too much.

I tried to pretend he was there on his own business, even tried to drum up anger or indifference, but neither came, and then he had warm bagels and veggie cheese and lox arranged on paper plates on the empty end of the worktable, and it was too much.

When I saw the veggie alien and I commented on nature abhorring a vacuum, it reminded me that I was thinking the very same thought when I was talking to LaLeche.

No animal matter of any kind, synthetic or not, and a wide variety of veggie, rice, and sauce-heavy dishes including curries, with juices and herbal teas.

The food was what you might expect to find on Air Uganda tourist class: boil-in-the-bag veggie burgers, pre-cooked bacon slices, greasy meat patties which were pre-seared and left to marinate in grease in the steam cabinet.

She picked up her veggie burger and prepared to enjoy the rest of the afternoon.

I got a veggie burger from a van at one end of the car park and sat eating it in the car.

Dawn and her mom are health food nuts and only eat stuff like salads, tofu, and veggie burgers.

From behind the stack of veggie burgers and pints of frozen yogurt, he removed the little white plastic box, furry with frost.

Diners were stuffing their flushed faces with enormous green salads glistening with yogurt dressing, steaming bowls of meatless soup, egg-white omelets with stacks of dry cracked-wheat toast, veggie burgers as appetizing as peat moss, and gloppy masses of tofu-potato casserole.