different between eggie vs aggie

English

Etymology

egg +? -ie

Noun

eggie (plural eggies)

1. (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!

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æ?i

Etymology 1

agate +? -ie

Noun

aggie (countable and uncountable, plural aggies)

1. (informal) Marble or a marble made of agate, or one that looks as if it were made of agate.
   • 1950, The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury:

     Mrs. Collins. Never seen so many children out. Snowmen in every yard this year.
     Billy. Look at mine, Mr Willis. Got a baseball for a nose and my best aggies for eyes.
     Mr. Willis. Yeah, marbles are fine—but in my day we used coal.

   • 1999, Abdelkader Benali, Susan Massotty, Wedding by the Sea (page 60)

     Most of the time it went fine; some of his classmates had so many marbles they could have opened up their own shop in smurfs, pirates, purple aggies and pink panthers.

Etymology 2

agricultural +? -ie

Noun

aggie (plural aggies)

1. (US, informal) An agricultural school, such as one of the state land-grant colleges.
2. (US, informal) A student or alumnus of such a school.