Newbish

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Resembling or characteristic of a newb. Internet

    "I have a big HD disk partitioned as all DOS. It's mostly empty. I want to repartition it with a 100meg Linux partition. Do I ahve^([sic]) to zap what dos stuff I have on it or can I "shrink" the DOS part somwhow?^([sic])"

Example

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"I have a big HD disk partitioned as all DOS. It's mostly empty. I want to repartition it with a 100meg Linux partition. Do I ahve^([sic]) to zap what dos stuff I have on it or can I "shrink" the DOS part somwhow?^([sic])"

Etymology

From newb + -ish.

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