rookie

== English == === Etymology === 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”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɹʊki/ Rhymes: -ʊki === Noun === rookie (plural rookies) An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces. A novice. 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. (UK) A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks. ==== Synonyms ==== beginner newbie noob tyro novice See also Thesaurus:beginner ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Collocations ==== rookie mistake - A obvious mistake, like one a beginner would make. ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === rookie (comparative rookier, superlative rookiest) Non-professional; amateur the rookiest of rookie mistakes ==== Translations ==== === Verb === rookie (third-person singular simple present rookies, present participle rookying, simple past and past participle rookied) (intransitive) To be a rookie; to go through one's inexperienced learning period in a job, team, or organization. (transitive, chiefly sports) To haze one or more rookies as an initiation ritual. === See also === naive rooky (homophone) === Anagrams === Koorie == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English rookie. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈruki/ [ˈru.ki] Rhymes: -uki Syllabification: roo‧kie === Noun === rookie m or f by sense (plural rookies) rookie ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.