Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. vegetables; also attrib.

1890		Sporting Times 22 Mar. 2/1: The ‘veg’s’ were delicious, and in rural abundance — and the brandy!
1898		W. Pett Ridge Mord Em’ly 143: Among the ‘Wanteds’ she found a Veg. girl was required.
1915		T. Burke Nights in Town 398: Jumbo’s, under the arches where you got cut from joint, two veg., buggy-bolster, and a cheese roll.
1917		G. De S. Wentworth-James Man Market 32: A paltry place like this, too, where a girl don’t get two veg-es with ’er meat every day!
1923		M. Garahan Stiffs 99: Cawfee, baby’s head small, boiled, no veg, two thick ’uns.
1933		Eve. Post (N.Z.) 17 June 12/8: He is mostly of the kind that [...] dotes on veges.
1936		G. Greene Gun for Sale (1973) 145: He could have a slap-up meal [...] cut off the joint and any number of veg.
1944		J. Cary Horse’s Mouth (1948) 158: Let’s go to the good pull-up and get a cut off the joint with two veg.
1953		D. Cusack Caddie 202: I brought you some fruit and veges they wus givin’ away.
1958		Hughes & Bontemps Book of Negro Folklore 418: Ah got fish, / Ah got fruits, / Ah got veg, yes ’ndeed!
1960		(con. 1946) A. Wesker I’m Talking About Jerusalem I i: Good garden here. Grow your own veges.
1960		J.R. Ackerley We Think The World Of You (1971) 83: A plate of meat-and-two-veg.
1967		J. Wynnum I’m a Jack, All Right 61: The shearers demanded cooked veges the other night.
1977		C. McFadden Serial 82: It was going to be good for her to maintain on veggies.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 136: We got in good with the Grecos, buyin’ eggs an’ veges an’ that.
1978		Observer Mag. 14 May 13: Offloading several portions of mixed veg on the eaters.
1982		P. Bailey An Eng. Madam 72: I pressed my tits against the blokes’ arms as I served them their meat and two veg.
1986		C. Bowles G’DAY 19: You go to the greengrocers for vegies, you take the kids to kindie, and if you're a tart you wear lippie.
1993		G. Disher Deathdeal [ebook] ‘An office job instead of peeling vegies’.
1994		D. Fallowell One Hot Summer in St Petersburg 96: The meat & 2 veg culture.
1997		C. Newland Scholar 304: S’all dem veggies innit?
2006		E. St Aubyn Mothers Milk 20: I’ll have meat and two veg.

2. (also vedgie) in fig. use, a moron, a madman.

2001

OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 veggie, vedgie n. derog. term for someone considered mentally deficient or brain damaged.