eggie

English

Etymology

egg +‎ -ie

Noun

eggie (plural eggies)

  1. Diminutive of egg
  2. (Internet slang) An Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
    • 1998, DRDeaTH, “Re: Help: Starting an IRC Bot?”, in alt.irc.bots (Usenet):
      about $5 a month will get ya a shell with 2 eggies
    • 2000, Chika, “Re: ideas?”, in alt.irc (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!
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