Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

eggie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.18 in modern English

Syllables: eggie
IPA

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Diminutive of egg.

noun

An Eggdrop bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.

Example Sentences

"Anyway, as soon as I could get my head into the car--3PM today--I drove home. Roz and hubby were starting with the iced vodka and fish eggies, really making my stommie lurch...had to get out of there."
"about $5 a month will get ya a shell with 2 eggies"
"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!"

Etymology

From egg + -ie.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: egg

Inflected Forms

eggies (plural)

Questions

What does eggie mean?: Diminutive of egg.
Where does eggie come from?: From egg + -ie.

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