newling

plural newlings

1. One who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie.

   "[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town."

   1879, Henry Mayhew, The boyhood of Martin Luther

   2 more examples

   “A newling!” Fascinated, but wary not to stand and reach for it, Rhiana kept her ears pricked—and heard another. A newling and its elder protector.

   2006, Michele Hauf, Rhiana

   Unlike a newling, I have to have air to breathe, and this idiot is squeezing so hard I can barely draw in a breath.

   2012, Elle Jasper, Eventide: The Dark Ink Chronicles

   Synonyms: come-here, comeling, offcomer, neophyte, noob, inceptor