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6 letters9 letters
"Newcomer"2 answers
rookie6 lettersfledgling9 letters
Filled answer is this word (ROOKIE).
Definitions
an awkward and inexperienced youth
Word origin
Thought to be an alteration of recruit + -ie, or from rook (“a cheat”) + -ie. Another possible origin is Dutch broekie (short for broekvent (“a boy still in short trousers”)), a common term for a shipmate. Also suggested is Irish rúca (“an inexperienced person”).
Used in a sentence
“The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake.”
“the rookiest of rookie mistakes”
“In 1977 he rookied as a smokejumper with the International Forest Fire Systems, a private firm that contracted smokejumping services to Canada's Northwest Territories.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Newcomer”6 letters
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