# Is anyone else annoyed by the word "veggies"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796 "2023-03-06T18:44:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/121 "2023-03-09T00:01:37Z")
I always think “vegan” = “person from the Vega star system,” so I’m also tempted to say Vay-gun. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/122 "2023-03-09T00:21:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > I’m hoping that’s just a typo and not some new weird coinage I’ve never seen before. It is a typo. As it is a word I’d never use I’m not used to typing it. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > How is “liquor” (_sic_) not a valid word for alcoholic spirits? IMO it’s _the_ term for the stuff. Never said anything about validity. You don’t live in my culture do you? People in the USA use it, here in the UK we don’t really use it to colloquially refer to drinks of that nature, it is not _the_ term for me. It simply feels wrong to my ear and makes me cringe when I hear it. Just like “veggies” or “veg” are perfectly normal words to use and hear for me and yet for others it annoys them. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/123 "2023-03-09T00:30:32Z")
Got it. Sorry I sounded abrasive. That was uncouth of me. I had taken the thrust of the thread to be folks expressing their pet annoyances about cutesy coinages that rankle them. Not about ordinary traditional dictionary words. But I suppose that’s just me looking at it narrowly. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/124 "2023-03-09T00:51:48Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > cutesy ^spine shivers^ Oh, don’t get me started with “cutesy”! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/125 "2023-03-09T01:06:03Z")
Will I be veering too far off topic if I add the term “baby bump” to the list? Everyone else has covered “yummy,” “tummy,” and “nom nom” along with the original “veggies,” and I’m not remembering what other nauseating baby talk is in general circulation. (Did someone mention “nummy”?) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/126 "2023-03-09T03:48:12Z")
> [@InternetLegend](#): > > Will I be veering too far off topic if I add the term “baby bump” to the list? Okay, then I get to add “fur baby”. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/127 "2023-03-09T03:49:36Z")
It’s a deal! ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/128 "2023-03-09T05:14:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Okay, then I get to add “fur baby”. Fur babies are the things my cat leaves on the middle of the pristine white sheeted bed after grooming himself a little excessively. Hairballs. Vomited hairballs. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/129 "2023-03-09T08:03:29Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Got it. Sorry I sounded abrasive. That was uncouth of me. not a problem at all, I didn’t take it as such. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > I had taken the thrust of the thread to be folks expressing their pet annoyances about cutesy coinages that rankle them. Not about ordinary traditional dictionary words. well of course “veggie” and “veg” _are_ ordinary dictionary words for a lot of people. ---
**Author:** ![nicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f0a364/32.png) [@nicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicky)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/130 "2023-03-09T10:10:50Z")
Im a bit annoyed at ‘veggies’ .Because it has the whiff of being cajoled into eating boring vegetables i dont want to. I want to eat what i want, and the vegetable dishes i do eat should be tasty enough to be insulted as mere “veggies” as if they are merely virtuous roughage. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/131 "2023-03-09T12:35:15Z")
I can tolerate “veggies”. It’s better than when people review restaurants online and describe the food as “yummy”. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/132 "2023-03-09T12:41:15Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > It’s better than when people review restaurants online and describe the food as “yummy”. Agree. Do you also have a problem with the recipe website [Yummly](https://www.yummly.com/?prm-v1=1)? ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/133 "2023-03-09T15:06:51Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Oh, don’t get me started with “cutesy”! 😛 Does it make you cringey? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/134 "2023-03-09T15:46:16Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Does it make you cringey? Maybe it makes him testy? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/135 "2023-03-09T15:48:08Z")
It makes me cray-cray! 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/136 "2023-03-09T16:32:13Z")
Since we’ve now gone beyond just “veggies,” I want to add “ginormous”. It’s something five-year olds (I know a lot of people here use it/have used it–you’re not really five years old, but this is my gripe and I’m sticking to it) would say, “Mom! Eleventy-gazillion ginormous elephants just came through my window!” ---
**Author:** ![xtenkfarpl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c2a13f/32.png) [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/137 "2023-03-09T16:33:49Z")
Hmm, maybe we need a new topic. Who can come up with the most cringeworthy baby-talk abbreviation? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/138 "2023-03-09T17:16:12Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#): > > Who can come up with the most cringeworthy baby-talk abbreviation? I vote for “bae”. Not even necessarily in its original usage, but more in its appropriation by corporate culture. Who thought dropping a “b” from a monosyllabic word was helpful?! ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/139 "2023-03-09T17:17:40Z")
How do they use “bae” in corporate culture? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796/140 "2023-03-09T17:20:12Z")
Well just take a gander. > **[Brands Saying Bae is the Twitter account we've needed in 2014](https://www.theverge.com/2014/12/28/7458195/brands-saying-bae-is-the-most-important-twitter-account-of-2014)** > > The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts. It has been going on for about a decade. It’s not cute and doesn’t make your company look hip. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-annoyed-by-the-word-veggies/980796.md?page=8)