noobiness
English
Etymology
Noun
noobiness (uncountable)
- (Internet slang) The quality of being nooby.
- Synonym: noobishness
- 1999 August 29, Nikk Pilato, “Buckeye Question”, in rec.sport.football.college[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 March 2025:
- Another noobie showing off his noobiness...
- 2000 September 8, Eric A. Hall, “Changes”, in rec.games.computer.ultima.online[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 March 2025:
- [H]e cast paralyze once we got in the house, I popped and trapped pouch and ran, stopped to cast reflect during his running after me, and then recalled out laughing at his limp noobiness.
- 2002 February 9, Twilight, “Incredible NewTek Deals Until the Execs Get Loose Again!!!”, in comp.graphics.apps.lightwave[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 9 March 2025:
- Forgive my noobiness but I am so psyched up waiting for my lw3d 6.5 to get here in 2-6 weeks...
- 2011, Dino Bee Aik Tan, “Acknowledgements”, in Immunological Determinants of Immune Restoration Disease and Immune Recovery in HIV Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy[4] (Doctoral Thesis), Crawley, W.A.: University of Western Australia, →OCLC, page x:
- Thank you Andrew Lim (my flow sifu) for being very patient with me (and my noobiness) and helping with all my flow cytometry problems.
- 2015 May 29, “Wills”, in The Arrow[5], Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Westlake High School, archived from the original on 7 March 2023, page 10, column 2:
- I, Kritin “Kritter” Karkare, of bioengineered mind and full metal body, will my genetically engineered unicorn and awkwardness to DZ; my noobiness to JY; […]
- 2016 December, Gareth Healey, “Proving Grounds: Performing Masculine Identities in Call of Duty: Black Ops”, in Game Studies[6], volume 16, number 2, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 January 2017:
- The linking of “gayness” with “noobiness” suggests a conceptual link between “gay” play and inexperience.
- 2024 June 7, Mary Graf, chapter 24, in The Folded Lie, Bloomington, Ind.: WestBow Press, →ISBN, “Game’s On” section:
- Garrison smiled and continued even more enthusiastically. “He’s very polite and friendly. That might just be part of his sales technique. But since he wasn’t trying to sell me anything, it seems like he genuinely wants to think the best of people. That definitely works in my favor.” / Aristotle snickered at the apparent noobiness of this mark.