proggy

English

Etymology 1

prog +‎ -y

Noun

proggy (plural proggies)

  1. (slang) A computer program.
    • 2008, Eric James, Shades of the Moon: Brawls before Laws (page 37)
      Ben bought a laptop shortly after and we would stay up all night making proggies with Visual Basic to use on AOL. These proggies were platform based applications that allowed us to do numerous things online, to other customers.

Etymology 2

prog +‎ -y

Adjective

proggy (comparative proggier, superlative proggiest)

  1. (informal) Characteristic of progressive rock music.
    • 2006, SPIN (volume 22, number 9, page 104)
      They made prog rock that was too proggy for its own good. Even guitarist and band auteur Omar Rodriguez-Lopez must've realized how far out into the ozone he'd drifted.
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