Meanings
comparative more newbish · superlative most newbish
- InternetResembling or characteristic of a newb.
The following list includes some of the most commonly used code. […] Hopefully, this list will help you be less newbish and on the road to understanding another communication method.
2007 June 10, Ann-Marie Berg, “IMO, parents need to catch up on Net lingo”, in The Gazette, volume 125, number 152, Cedar Rapids, Ia.: Gazette Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2L, column 63 more examples
I have a big HD disk partitioned as all DOS. It's mostly empty. I want to repartition it with a 100meg Linux partition. Do I ahve^([sic]) to zap what dos stuff I have on it or can I "shrink" the DOS part somwhow?^([sic])
1993 February 4, David Glen Jacobowitz, “Newbish question :”, in comp.os.linux (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 Sep 2025At the end, it said, “Are you interested in acting in machinima? Contact Laurina Hawks.” And so I did! I mean little newbish me, just all the moxy in the world, just like, “Yeah! I’m gonna contact this director! I would like to be in a machinima!”
2012, 1angelcares Writer [pseudonym], “The Voices of Machinima”, in Phylis Johnson, Donald Petti, Machinima: The Art and Practice of Virtual Filmmaking, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 118She’d lost everything save her life in one fell swoop. Her food, her potions and her weapons -- all gone. She thought it best to at least see if she could salvage any of her lost possessions. She spent a great deal of time looking at the map prior to stepping into the clearing. This perhaps was her first real mistake earlier in the day, a truly newbish error.
2020 February 14, Black Lyte [pseudonym], “A Gift of Savagery”, in Don’t F*ck with the Healer! (Vanta Fantasies; 2), ASIN B084TS14PL
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