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Yegge

A measurement of length of a piece of writing, particularly when indicating a length excessive for the genre. A Yegge is approximately 4000 words or 25 kilobytes.

Named for well known programmer and technical blogger Steve Yegge, whose blog up to about 2009 was notorious for entries of approximately 1 or 2 Yegges in length, vastly exceeding the typical length of blog entries in the genre.

"I knew breaking up with him was a good idea after I got an email two Yegges long listing all the reasons why I should take him back."

by Puzzlement November 7, 2011