"nubcake" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈnuːbkeɪk/ [UK], /ˈnʌbkeɪk/ [UK] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nubcake.wav [Southern-England] Forms: nubcakes [plural], nubcakez [plural]
Etymology: From nub (“noob”) + cake, on the pattern of words like beefcake. Etymology templates: {{com|en|nub|cake|t1=noob}} nub (“noob”) + cake, {{m|en|beefcake}} beefcake Head templates: {{en-noun|s|nubcakez}} nubcake (plural nubcakes or nubcakez)
  1. (rare, Internet slang, derogatory, informal or humorous) A noob; a newbie. Tags: Internet, derogatory, humorous, informal, rare Categories (topical): People Synonyms: noob, noobie, nub, n00b

Inflected forms

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          "text": "2007: “JohnR”, alt.games.warcraft (Google group): protection spec, the 8ᵗʰ day of February at 12:38pm\nThe losing agro thing is just because you’re grouping with nubcakes who don’t have the first clue about what you need to do and how to watch their own threat levels. A classic sign is someone who opens up the instant the mob is pulled. Two kinds of people do this, clueless nubcakes who just have no concept of group dynamic and damage meter maniacs who don’t give a shit about group dynamic as long as there damage meter penis is longer, it’s hard to say which one is the worst to have in a party. They’re both intensely irritating and both often cause wipes."
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          "text": "2008: “Bassos”, alt.magick (Google group): Astrology Oath, the 26ᵗʰ day of August at 8:50pm\nHeh.\nZe nubcakez.\n(resorting to interwebz zpeakz, cos grown up talk goes over your headz)"
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          "ref": "2008 August 26, \"Bassos\", “Re: Astrology Oath”, in alt.magick (Usenet)",
          "text": "That is vpn + google, you nubcake.",
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          "ref": "2009 February 9, \"JohnR\", “Re: How would you use dual spec?”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)",
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          "text": "I don’t think it’d be too hard to enforce the rules either… you just have to idle when you have the ball and can’t ever do a full rotation until you get rid of the ‘ball’ and also to stop some nubcake (what? oh wait that was me) from trying to exploit that rule and ‘idle’ all over the court in a zig-zag you would just enforce a 3 second rule.",
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