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newling

noun

Etymology

From new + -ling. Cognate with Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”), German Neuling (“a novice”).

  1. inherited from *néwos✻
  2. inherited from *niwjaz✻ — “new”
  3. inherited from *niwi✻
  4. inherited from nēowe
  5. inherited from neowe
  6. suffixed as newling — “new + ling”

Definitions

  1. One who is new (to something)

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

The neighborhood

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