Knowbie

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An experienced Internet user. Internet

    "Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas."

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"Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas."

Etymology

From know + -bie, patterned after newbie, with know replacing new to suggest knowledge.

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