newbie

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnjuːbi/, /ˈnuːbi/

• Audio (AU)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːbi

Noun

newbie (plural newbies)

1. (slang) A newcomer, someone new to something. [from 20th c.]
2. (Internet) A new user or participant; someone who is extremely new and inexperienced (to a game or activity). A beginner.
3. (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

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• novice
• newcomer
• newling
• rookie
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Antonyms

• knowbie

Coordinate terms

• midbie
• oldbie

Derived terms

• -bie
• don't bite the newbie
• newb
• newbie gains
• newbieness
• noob, n00b, nub

 

Translations

new (inexperienced) user or participant

• Arabic: مُبْتَدِئ m (mubtadiʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: ابن امبارح m (ebn embāreḥ), محدث m (móḥdas)

• Belarusian: нава́к m (navák), навачо́к m (navačók), навічо́к m (navičók)
• Bulgarian: нова́к (bg) m (novák), аджами́я (bg) m (adžamíja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新手 (zh) (xīnshǒu), 菜鳥／菜鸟 (zh) (càiniǎo) (slang), 小白 (zh) (xiǎobái)

• Czech: nováček m
• Danish: nybegynder (da) c
• Dutch: nieuweling (nl) m, beginneling (nl) m, debutant (nl) m, nieuwkomer (nl) m
• Finnish: aloittelija (fi), keltanokka (fi), vasta-alkaja (fi), mopo (fi), nyyppä (fi)
• French: néophyte (fr) m or f, béotien (fr) m, débutant (fr) m, profane (fr) m or f
• Galician: anovao m, anová f
• Georgian: გამოუცდელი (gamoucdeli), ახალბედა (axalbeda), დამწყები (damc̣q̇ebi)
• German: Neuling (de) m, Anfänger (de) m
• Hungarian: újonc (hu), kezdő (hu)
• Italian: nabbo (it) m, niubbo (it) m, principiante (it)
• Japanese: 初心者 (ja) (しょしんしゃ, shoshinsha), 今道心 (いまどうしん, imadōshin), 若僧 (わかぞう, wakazō)
• Kazakh: үйренбеген (üirenbegen)
• Korean: 초보자 (ko) (choboja)
• Macedonian: новајлија m (novajlija)
• Norwegian: nybegynner (no), newbie (no) m
• Persian: تازه‌کار (fa) (tâze-kâr)
• Polish: nowicjusz (pl) m, nowicjuszka (pl) f, newbie (pl) m
• Portuguese: novato (pt), iniciante, neófito (pt) m, principiante (pt)
• Russian: новичо́к (ru) m (novičók), (e.g. new student) но́венький (ru) m (nóvenʹkij)
• Slovak: nováčik m
• Slovene: novinec m
• Spanish: novato (es), usuario nuevo m, principiante (es) m or f
• Swedish: nybörjare (sv) c, blåbär (sv) n
• Turkish: çaylak (tr), çömez (tr)
• Ukrainian: нова́к (uk) m (novák), новачо́к (uk) m (novačók), нова́чка (uk) f (nováčka)