Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| abecedarian | one learning the alphabet; one learning the rudiments of something. |
| alphabetarian | someone learning the alphabet, a beginner. |
| apprentice | one learning a trade; (verb) to set at work as an apprentice. |
| bajan | a freshman at Aberdeen university in Scotland. |
| beginner | one that begins. |
| bejant | a freshman at St Andrews unviersity in Scotland. |
| blunderer | one who blunders. |
| blunker | a bungler. |
| boggler | one who boggles i.e. hesitates or bungles. |
| botcher | one who makes a botch of things. |
| bumbler | a bungler. |
| bungler | one that bungles. |
| butterfingered | apt to let things fall or slip through the fingers: careless. |
| butterfingers | one who is apt to let things fall or slip through the fingers: a careless person. N.B. no BUTTERFINGER*. |
| chechako | a tenderfoot > CHECHAKOES or CHECHAKOS. |
| chechaquo | a tenderfoot > CHECHAQUOS. |
| cheechako | a tenderfoot > CHEECHAKOES or CHEECHAKOS. |
| cheechalko | a tenderfoot > CHEECHALKOES or CHEECHALKOS. |
| chela | a disciple in Buddhism > CHELAS. (Can also mean an arthopod's claw, with plural CHELAE). |
| chelaship | the state of being a CHELA. |
| deadwood | useless personnel in an organisation > DEADWOODS. |
| deb | a DEBUTANTE: DEBS. |
| debutant | someone (male) making a beginning. |
| debutante | someone (female) making a beginning, esp. in society. |
| dude | a man from the city holidaying out west, and not versed in rural matters. |
| dudeness | the state of being a dude. |
| dudish | like, or characteristic of, a DUDE > DUDISHLY. |
| dudism | the state of being a DUDE. |
| duffer | an incompetent, ineffectual, or clumsy person; esp. a mediocre golfer. |
| dufferdom dufferism | being a duffer. |
| flubber | one who FLUBS, makes a mistake. |
| fresher freshman | a university or college student in his or her first year. |
| frosh | a freshman > FROSHES. |
| fuckup | one who habitually blunders. |
| fumbler | one who fumbles. |
| grauncher | a clumsy and incompetent mechanic. |
| greener | a newly-arrived immigrant. |
| greenhand | an inferior sailor. |
| greenhorn | a novice, a tenderfoot. |
| gremmie gremmy | an inexperienced surfer. |
| griffin | a newcomer in India, a novice |
| griffinism | being like a GRIFFIN. |
| grommet | a novice surfer. |
| hamfat | an amateurish performer. |
| hodad hodaddy | a non-surfer. |
| inceptor | a beginner. |
| incompetent | (one who is) not competent; not legally qualified: INCOMPETENTS. |
| inexpert | not expert > INEXPERTLY; (noun) an unskilled person; a person who is not an expert. |
| ingenu | an artless, naive young man. |
| ingenue | an artless, naive young woman. |
| jackaroo jackeroo | a (male) newcomer gaining experience at a sheep-station; (verb) to work as a newcomer at a sheep farm. |
| jillaroo | a (female) newcomer gaining experience at a sheep-station. |
| klutz | a clumsy person. |
| klutzy | clumsy, bungling. |
| landlubber | one who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule. |
| landlubberly | like a LANDLUBBER. |
| landlubbing | being a LANDLUBBER. |
| looby | a clumsy, clownish person; (adj.) lubberly > LOOBIER, LOOBIEST; LOOBILY. |
| lubbard lubber | a clumsy fellow. |
| lubberliness | the state of being LUBBERLY. |
| lubberly | like a LUBBER, clumsy. |
| muff | a person who is awakward or clumsy, esp. in posrt; (verb) to bungle a catch. |
| neophyte | a person who is new to a subject; a beginner, a novice, esp. a religious novice. |
| neophytic | of or like a NEOPHYTE, a person who is new to a subject. |
| newbie newb | a new arrival such as on the Internet. |
| noob | a new arrival such as on the Internet. |
| novice | a person new to any field or activity. |
| novicehood | the state of being a novice. |
| noviceship | the state of being a novice; novitiate. |
| noviciate | the state of being a novice. |
| novitiate | a novice in a religious order; the state of being a novice. |
| nozzer | a raw recruit. |
| onboard | to train a new person to do a job. |
| onboard | the act of training a new person to do a job. |
| palooka | a clumsy, inept, or untalented boxer; a stupid, clumsy, or obnoxious person. |
| prentice | an apprentice, one learning a trade; (verb) to set at work as an apprentice. |
| rookie | a new recruit. |
| schlemiel schlemihl shlemiel shlemiehl | a clumsy person, a pitiful bungler. |
| schlepper shlepper | an incompetent or nonentity. |
| sprog | a military recruit; a young child. |
| strapper | an apprentice, a learner. |
| swabbie swabby | a seaman, esp. a new recruit. |
| tiro | a novice > TIROS or TIROES. [L. tiro, young soldier, new recruit or more generally novice]. |
| tirocinium | early training; first experience; group of recruits > TIROCINIUMS. |
| tironic | like a TIRO. |
| trainee | a person receiving training. |
| tyro | a novice or beginner > TYROS, TYROES or TYRONES. |
| tyronic | like a tyro. |
| underachiever | one (as a student) that fails to attain a predicted level of achievement or does not do as well as expected. |