different between eggie vs veggie

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

Etymology

From pronounced stem of vegetable or vegetarian + -ie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?d?i/
• Rhymes: -?d?i

Noun

veggie (plural veggies)

1. (informal) A vegetable.
2. (informal) A vegetarian.
   • 2018, Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey, Ethical Vegetarianism and Veganism

     Vegetarian/vegan meals at most colleges are only pretty average. They have a long way to go to provide nutritionally adequate and tasty food for veggies.

Synonyms

• (vegetable): veg
• (vegetarian): veggo (Australian)

Translations

Adjective

veggie (comparative more veggie, superlative most veggie)

1. (informal) Vegetarian; suitable for vegetarians
2. Vegetable-like, vegetal

Synonyms

• (vegetarian): veggo (Australian)

Translations

Derived terms

• veggie burger
• veggieburger