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I am expanding my vocabulary of the Glasgow vernacular - not-so-recent additions have been ’solid’ and ‘fresh’, frequently prefaced by the modifier ‘pure’. Also, I now know what an Emo is.
However, when I got to ‘noob’, I and my colleagues were stumped. It sounded pithy, but with little obvious derivational quality. Here is a helpful section from Wikipedia.

Newb vs. noob

Newb and noob may have somewhat different connotations. Newbs are simply newcomers—noob and n00b, on the other hand, generally means someone who is obnoxious, annoying, or breaks the rules; whether they are actual newcomers or not is mostly irrelevant. Therefore, a noob may be someone who has been around for a long time but still engages in behavior that he or she should have learned is unacceptable. Noobs are generally confident in what they are doing, but in reality are annoying others. “Newb” is not necessarily an insulting word, but “noob” usually is.

Apparently it is also classed as a sort of swear word, so apologies.

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