"newfag" meaning in English

See newfag in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: En-au-newfag.ogg [Australia] Forms: newfags [plural]
Etymology: new + -fag Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|new|fag}} new + -fag Head templates: {{en-noun}} newfag (plural newfags)
  1. (Internet slang, derogatory) A n00b; an inexperienced member of the 4chan community (or any other online community). Tags: Internet, derogatory Hyponyms: summerfag

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for newfag meaning in English (2.5kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "oldbie"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "oldfag"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "new",
        "3": "fag"
      },
      "expansion": "new + -fag",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "new + -fag",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "newfags",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "newfag (plural newfags)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -fag",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 July 11, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “BTW Lego Newfag”, in rec.toys.lego (Usenet)",
          "text": "Oh, also, using Outhouse Express...yeah, really shows off what a Usenet newfag you are, just a lil FYI for ya. You might wanna try XNews or Agent or any *REAL* news browser (not a mail client with some sloppily added extras).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 March 28, darthmark [username], “Re: I Love 1997 [was: Is Usenet Dying? Or anime?]”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)",
          "text": "I got branded a newfag by some of the asshat old-timers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press",
          "text": "Many veteran users bemoaned that the newfags were only interested in trolling, and cared not for meme creation and ultranerdy culture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A n00b; an inexperienced member of the 4chan community (or any other online community)."
      ],
      "hyponyms": [
        {
          "word": "summerfag"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-newfag-en-noun-ZmaSI4m7",
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "n00b",
          "n00b"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, derogatory) A n00b; an inexperienced member of the 4chan community (or any other online community)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-newfag.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-au-newfag.ogg/En-au-newfag.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-newfag.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "newfag"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "oldbie"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "offensive",
        "sometimes"
      ],
      "word": "oldfag"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "new",
        "3": "fag"
      },
      "expansion": "new + -fag",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "new + -fag",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "newfags",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "newfag (plural newfags)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyponyms": [
    {
      "word": "summerfag"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4chan slang",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English derogatory terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English internet slang",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -fag",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 July 11, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “BTW Lego Newfag”, in rec.toys.lego (Usenet)",
          "text": "Oh, also, using Outhouse Express...yeah, really shows off what a Usenet newfag you are, just a lil FYI for ya. You might wanna try XNews or Agent or any *REAL* news browser (not a mail client with some sloppily added extras).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 March 28, darthmark [username], “Re: I Love 1997 [was: Is Usenet Dying? Or anime?]”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)",
          "text": "I got branded a newfag by some of the asshat old-timers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press",
          "text": "Many veteran users bemoaned that the newfags were only interested in trolling, and cared not for meme creation and ultranerdy culture.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A n00b; an inexperienced member of the 4chan community (or any other online community)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Internet",
          "Internet"
        ],
        [
          "slang",
          "slang"
        ],
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "n00b",
          "n00b"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet slang, derogatory) A n00b; an inexperienced member of the 4chan community (or any other online community)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet",
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-newfag.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0a/En-au-newfag.ogg/En-au-newfag.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/En-au-newfag.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "newfag"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.