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. |