newbie
NounOpen English WordNet
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Translations
Noun new user or participant
- Spanish
- novato
- French
- débutant
- German
- Neuling
- Italian
- principiante
- Portuguese
- novato
- Turkish
- çaylak
- Russian
- новичо́к novičók
- Arabic
- مُبْتَدِئ mubtadiʔ
- Chinese
- 新手 xīnshǒu
- Dutch
- nieuweling
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
<jargon> /n[y]oo'bee/ (Sometimes shorted to "noob") Originally from British public-school and military slang variant of "new boy", an inexperienced user.
This term surfaced in the newsgroup news:talk.bizarre but is now in wide use. Criteria for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie in one group while remaining a respected regular in another. The label "newbie" is sometimes applied as a serious insult to a person who has been around for a long time but who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue.
See BIFF. [Jargon File]
(2007-08-02)
The Jargon File
[very common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of ‘new boy’] A Usenet neophyte. This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use (the combination “clueless newbie” is especially common). Criteria for being considered a newbie vary wildly; a person can be called a newbie in one newsgroup while remaining a respected regular in another. The label newbie is sometimes applied as a serious insult to a person who has been around Usenet for a long time but who carefully hides all evidence of having a clue. See B1FF; see also gnubie . Compare chainik, luser.