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eggie

eggie noun: an Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality. Also the diminutive of egg.

Noun

eggie (plural eggies)

  1. (Internet) An Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
    • about $5 a month will get ya a shell with 2 eggies1998, DRDeaTH, “Re: Help: Starting an IRC Bot?”, in alt.irc.bots (Usenet)
    • I think that Efnet and IRCnet, among others, prove that nick/chanserv is not an indispensible^([sic]) requirement, as long as you have reasonable alternatives (eggdrop bots, etc.) Indeed some folk I know even object to eggies on a channel and will avoid them like the proverbial plague!2000, Chika, “Re: ideas?”, in alt.irc (Usenet)

Also used as

eggie is also the diminutive of egg.

Forms of eggie

pluraleggies

Origin of eggie

From egg + -ie.

Questions about eggie

What does eggie mean?
Eggie means an Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
What part of speech is eggie?
Eggie is a noun.
What is the plural of eggie?
The plural of eggie is eggies.

Words near eggie in the dictionary

  1. eggheadedly
  2. eggheadedness
  3. eggheadery
  4. eggheads
  5. egghot
  6. eggie
  7. eggier
  8. eggies
  9. eggiest
  10. eggily
  11. Eggimann

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