Rookie

//ˈɹʊki// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Non-professional; amateur

    "The game was going well until I made that rookie mistake."

Noun
  1. 1
    An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
  2. 2
    an awkward and inexperienced youth wordnet
  3. 3
    A novice.
  4. 4
    An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his/her first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
  5. 5
    A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks. British
Verb
  1. 1
    To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization. intransitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual. transitive

    "Great was my surprise when I found that I had been "rookied" in for a policing-up detail with no chance to "allez.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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”).

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