Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

microsoftie

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-crosoft-ie
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An employee of Microsoft.

Informal

Example Sentences

"Craig Mundie, the software giant's chief technical officer, is not a typical Microsoftie."
"An ex-Microsoftie named Alex St. John, who founded a company called WildTangent, put it this way, "I couldn't be better equipped to run a company.""
"This style of naming variables was called Hungarian notation, after Charles Simonyi, a famous Microsoftie who recently went to the International Space Station as a space tourist."
"In the years since, I’ve had the privilege of working with many exceptional human beings, including Hubbers, Microsofties, customers, partners, our GitHub Stars, open-source maintainers, and developers around the world who’ve helped us shape GitHub."

Etymology

From Microsoft + -ie.

Usage

Informal

Inflected Forms

Microsofties (plural)

Synonyms

Microsofter Softie

Questions

What does microsoftie mean?: An employee of Microsoft.
Where does microsoftie come from?: From Microsoft + -ie.

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