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knowbie

noun

Etymology

From know + -bie, patterned after newbie, with know replacing new to suggest knowledge.

  1. derived from *ǵneh₃-✻
  2. inherited from *knēaną✻
  3. inherited from *knāan✻
  4. inherited from cnāwan
  5. inherited from knowen
  6. suffixed as knowbie — “know + bie”

Definitions

  1. An experienced Internet user.

    • Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for knowbie. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA