"newling" meaning in English

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        "2": "nieuweling",
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        "4": "a novice, beginner"
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      "expansion": "Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”)",
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        "4": "a novice"
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      "expansion": "German Neuling (“a novice”)",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From new + -ling. Cognate with Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”), German Neuling (“a novice”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "newlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1879, Henry Mayhew, The boyhood of Martin Luther",
          "text": "\"[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Michele Hauf, Rhiana",
          "text": "“A newling!” Fascinated, but wary not to stand and reach for it, Rhiana kept her ears pricked—and heard another. A newling and its elder protector.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Elle Jasper, Eventide: The Dark Ink Chronicles",
          "text": "Unlike a newling, I have to have air to breathe, and this idiot is squeezing so hard I can barely draw in a breath.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "One who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie."
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          "newcomer",
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          "novice",
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          "newbie",
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        {
          "sense": "new arrival",
          "word": "come-here"
        },
        {
          "word": "comeling"
        },
        {
          "word": "offcomer"
        },
        {
          "word": "newcomer"
        },
        {
          "word": "neophyte"
        },
        {
          "word": "noob"
        },
        {
          "word": "beginner"
        },
        {
          "sense": "novice",
          "word": "inceptor"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "newling"
}

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    {
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        "4": "a novice"
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      "expansion": "German Neuling (“a novice”)",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From new + -ling. Cognate with Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”), German Neuling (“a novice”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "newlings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "newling (plural newlings)",
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  "lang": "English",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1879, Henry Mayhew, The boyhood of Martin Luther",
          "text": "\"[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Michele Hauf, Rhiana",
          "text": "“A newling!” Fascinated, but wary not to stand and reach for it, Rhiana kept her ears pricked—and heard another. A newling and its elder protector.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Elle Jasper, Eventide: The Dark Ink Chronicles",
          "text": "Unlike a newling, I have to have air to breathe, and this idiot is squeezing so hard I can barely draw in a breath.",
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        }
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        "One who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie."
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          "newcomer"
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          "newbie",
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    {
      "sense": "new arrival",
      "word": "come-here"
    },
    {
      "word": "comeling"
    },
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    },
    {
      "word": "newcomer"
    },
    {
      "sense": "novice",
      "word": "inceptor"
    },
    {
      "word": "neophyte"
    },
    {
      "word": "noob"
    },
    {
      "word": "beginner"
    }
  ],
  "word": "newling"
}