Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang One that is new to something, especially a novice at using computer technology or the Internet.
Wiktionary
- n. Internet A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any new participant in some activity
Etymologies
- From new (with b as in freebie). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Thus, the number one gear advice I can give to the newbie is a good book on the basics of fly fishing.”
“But the newbie is usually an idealistic recent law school grads who loosens his tie after a long day in court and goes out to a bar with fellow young grads who remind each other that while you win some — and get ready for the flipperoo — you lose some as well!”
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“Being a newbie is advantageous in that you will be viewing the culture fresh, learning the local dialect as a matter of course, and will elicit all kinds of assistance from helpful folks when shopping, setting up a bank account, etc.”
“To deliver such a prominent franchise into the hands of a relative newbie is a great show of faith from the publisher, but you can be sure that their decision hasn't been incidental and I don't think we'll see a drop in quality.”
“Get to know some people and ask questions and don't be afraid to admit you're a "newbie" - after all, these people had to start somewhere also, right?”
“The other newbie is Ilanna, a European female in her late 20s to early 30s who possesses great intelligence, but who’s also dangerous as all get out.”
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“The term newbie or noob, originally thought to be from British public-school and military slang "new boy," was first spotted in the Usenet newsgroup talk. bizarre as an insult to a clueless newcomer.”
“In that group I am a newbie, which is funny since I've been at Tor nearly half its lifetime.”
“But to a tag newbie this is interesting … The tips in this link helped me understand tags [...]”
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“I'd also like to tag newbie Mary Danielson from A Merry Romance.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘newbie’.
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SEDE - people and ranks
Popeye, observers, newbie, inspector, in-chief, gunman, copilot, medic, guard, G.I., actor, Talib and 105 more...
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a beginners' list
a beginner's list should be about novices and all those that start on new journeys
noob, beginner, new, left foot, threshold, dawn, start, go, adventurer, undeterred, brave, foolish and 61 more...
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Words for the Modern Man
A list of words and phrases for those who are not all too familiar with the 21st century.
3G, 4G, affluenza, agritourism, auto-tune, burkini, buzz, captcha, chatroom, cloud, content farm, dramedy and 21 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Fandom
fanfic, beta, fanboy, fangirl, fanfiction, fanficcer, spoiler, squeeing, shipping, shipper, ship, one true pairing and 130 more...
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Technology
a list of words related to technology
hacker, internet, mputer, b, web, online, password, software, hardware, site, blog, newbie and 1 more...
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a fan's dictionary
fanon, canon, trekkie, trekker, browncoat, shipping, het, slash, femslash, smut, gen, mary sue and 45 more...
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neologish
neologisms, etc.
pop culture that has invaded my brain.ishtar, d'oh, jump the shark, truthiness, ginormous, muggle, craptacular, spam, cyberspace, email, excellent, boo yah and 20 more...
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Geek Culture
geek, dork, nerd, gafiate, filk, concom, fanboy, fandom, geekosphere, grok, hacker, leet and 26 more...
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Words I never used before the Internet
Words I never used before the Internet
omg, zomg, pwned, pwnage, internet, lol, rotflmao, flamebait, asshat, cu l8r, haxor, website and 29 more...
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skeptic's list
I HATE these neologisms. Baby Talk!
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Nice's Words
colophon, errata, erratum, entrepreneur, dork, nerd, geek, courtesy, vice versa, in vitro, monetize, buzz and 17 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for newbie.
skeptic Baby talk!! We already have adjectives: new and beginning, and nouns: novice, beginner, newcomer Feb 3, 2008