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Originally Posted by gentlos  hey, im new here, but what means "newbie"? |
As Anglika says, it's a new person. Quite a few new nouns are created by adding '-ie' to an adjective (e.g. 'sickie' - =day off 'sick'), and when the root word ends in a vowel sound (new -> newbie, free -> freebie) a /b/ gets added (to avoid a tricky diphthong).
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