knowbie
English edit
Etymology edit
know + -bie, patterned after newbie, with know replacing new to suggest knowledge.
Noun edit
knowbie (plural knowbies)
- (Internet) An experienced Internet user.
- 2005 June 19, William Safire, “The Way We Live Now: 6-19-05: On Language; Qualassurepurp”, in The New York Times:
- Neither newbie or knowbie, I count myself among the silver surfers, those geezers in Dickensian nightshirts who preceded the blogging guys in pajamas.
Quotations edit
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:knowbie.