NOVICE
ADJECTIVES
1619 ► having the character of novices → NOVITIOUS → obs.
NOUNS
1651 ► a band of novices or recruits → TIROCINIUM
NOUNS, PERSON
1175 ► a young or new scholar or student; a disciple; a beginner or novice; one who is unpractised or inexperienced → YOUNGLING → obs.
1470 ► one beginning to learn; a novice, a tyro → BEGINNER
1599 ► one who is new to a subject; a beginner, a tyro, a novice → NEOPHYTE
L16 ► a junior; an inferior; a novice → PUISNE → obs.
1604 ► an inexperienced person; a novice → BACHELOR → obs.
1619 ► a beginner, a novice, a tyro → PRINCIPIANT→ obs.
1623 ► a novice or neophyte → ACOLYTE
1651 ► a beginner or learner in anything; one who is learning or who has mastered the rudiments only of any branch of knowledge; a novice → TIRO → TYRO
1651 ► a band of novices or recruits → TYROCINIUM
1672 ► an inexperienced person; a novice; a raw recruit → GREENHORN
1706 ► an inexperienced person, a novice, a beginner → YOUNGSTER → obs.
1772 ► a person who lacks experience or skill; a novice → BUTTON → colloq.
1815 ► an inexperienced youngster; a novice → JOHNNY NEWCOME
1821 ► a greenhorn → GREENIE → colloq.
1823 ► an inexperienced youngster; a novice → JOHNNY RAW
1825 ► a novice, a beginner in any trade, art, or science → BAIJAN → BAJAN → Sc.
1825 ► a novice → GANGRELL → Sc.
1836 ► a novice; an inexperienced person; a greenhorn → SAFT-HORN → Sc.
1839 ► an inexperienced youngster; a novice → JOHNNY-COME-LATELY
1866 ► a rustic, a countrified person; a greenhorn, a novice → BUCKWHEAT → Amer. dial.
1888 ► a young sailor or soldier; a novice → CHICKEN → Amer. dial.
1889 ► a novice → LADDIE-IN-A-JACKET → Sc.
1890 ► young or newly initiated persons; newcomers; novices → YOUNGS
1899 ► a novice, a beginner; a greenhorn → CHIPPY → Amer. sl.
1899 ► an unsophisticated person unaccustomed to Western ways; a novice, a greenhorn → MOMPARA → S. Afr.
20C ► any form of novice, as a new recruit → FRESH MEAT → sl.
1903 ► a novice or greenhorn; a country bumpkin → PALOUSER → Amer. dial.
1905 ► a rustic, a countrified person; a greenhorn, a novice → BUCKWHEATER → Amer. dial.
1907 ► a novice → CLEANSKIN → Aust. sl.
1913 ► a novice; a raw beginner; an unskilful person → DUB → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1934 ► an inexperienced person; a novice → DOG → Amer. dial.
1941 ► a rustic, a countrified person; a greenhorn, a novice → BUCK FARMER → Amer. dial.
1948 ► an inexperienced person; a greenhorn, a novice → GREENHEAD → US sl.
1964 ► a recruit, trainee, or newly arrived enlisted person; hence, in general, a mere novice → MAGGOT → contemptuous; Amer. sl., orig. US Marine Corps usage
1966 ► an inexperienced person; a greenhorn, a novice → GREENASS → US sl.
1967 ► a novice, a tenderfoot; a very inexperienced person → BOLL WEEVIL → Amer. dial.
1968 ► in logging: a novice → SEARS ROEBUCK GUY → Amer. dial.
1969 ► a novice, a greenhorn; a very inexperienced person → BOOTSTRAPPER → Amer. dial.
1970 ► a novice, a greenhorn, a very inexperienced person → BOOT → Amer. dial.
1970 ► a newcomer, a novice → NEWK → US students’ sl.
1980 ► a newcomer or novice, esp. to the fast life of the ghetto streets → NEW JACK → sl., chiefly African-American
1988 ► an inexperienced novice; a newcomer → BABE IN THE WOODS → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1989 ► a person of no account, esp. a timid one; a novice; in school: a freshman → RABBIT → sl. (Bk.)
2006 ► an inexperienced person; a novice → CHERRY → US sl. (Bk.)