newbish

From newb +‎ -ish.

newbish (comparative more newbish, superlative most newbish)

1. (Internet slang) Resembling or characteristic of a newb.
   • 1993 February 4, David Glen Jacobowitz, “Newbish question :”, in comp.os.linux‎^[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 15 September 2025:

     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]

   • 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 6:

     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.

   • 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 118:

     At 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!”

   • 2020 February 14, Black Lyte [pseudonym], “A Gift of Savagery”, in Don’t F*ck with the Healer! (Vanta Fantasies; 2), ASIN B084TS14PL:

     She’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.