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Word entry · 6 letters

rookie

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6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹʊki/Part of speech nounSorted eikoorStarts with REnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (ROOKIE).

Definitions

  1. 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.

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