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Egge vs Eggie - What's the difference?

egge | eggie |

As nouns the difference between egge and eggie

is that egge is while eggie is (internet slang) an (eggdrop) bot: a kind of automated irc user with various functionality.

egge

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1665-1676, author=Sir John Lauder, title=Publications of the Scottish History Society, Vol. 36, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was 5 moneth in France before I saw a boyled or roasted egge . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1651, author=William Harvey, title=Exercitationes de generatione animalium, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The egge is, as it were, an exposed womb; wherein there is a substance concluded as the Representative and Substitute, or Vicar of the breasts. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There after the images and reliques were orderly disposed, the great Priest compassed about with divers pictures according to the fashion of the Aegyptians, did dedicate and consecrate with certaine prayers a fair ship made very cunningly, and purified the same with a torch, an egge , and sulphur; the saile was of white linnen cloath, whereon was written certaine letters, which testified the navigation to be prosperous, the mast was of a great length, made of a Pine tree, round and very excellent with a shining top, the cabin was covered over with coverings of gold, and all the shippe was made of Citron tree very faire; then all the people as well religious as prophane tooke a great number of Vannes, replenished with odours and pleasant smells and threw them into the sea mingled with milke, untill the ship was filled up with large gifts and prosperous devotions, when as with a pleasant wind it launched out into the deep. }} ----

    eggie

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (internet slang) An (Eggdrop) bot: a kind of automated IRC user with various functionality.
  • * 1998 , "DRDeaTH", Re: Help: Starting an IRC Bot?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc.bots )
    • about $5 a month will get ya a shell with 2 eggies
  • * 2000 , "Chika", Re: ideas?'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc )
    • I think that Efnet and IRCnet, among others, prove that nick/chanserv is not an indispensible 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!