newbie
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English
Etymology
Uncertain: perhaps an alteration of newie with intrusive b (compare freebie), possibly a blend of newborn + baby, or perhaps a shortening of new boy or new beginner.
Pronunciation
Noun
newbie (plural newbies)
- (slang) A newcomer, someone new to something.
- (Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.
- (slang) Anything recently introduced into a setting, especially something that replaces an older version.
- 2005, Rickford Grant, Linux Made Easy: The Official Guide to Xandros 3 for Everyday Users, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 155:
- If you find that you would prefer using the new printer most of the time, while using the original only when needed, you can make the newbie the default printer for your system.
Usage notes
- The term "newbie" was greatly popularized with the advent of the Internet, but was in use before then.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:newbie.
Synonyms
- novice
- newcomer
- newling
- rookie
- See also Thesaurus:beginner
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Translations
new (inexperienced) user or participant
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