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rookie slang.|ˈrʊkɪ|
Also rookey, rooky.
[Origin uncertain; perh. corruption of recruit n.]
1. A raw recruit, spec. (a) an army or police recruit; (b) a novice at a sport, etc., esp. a first-year player in a particular team (chiefly N. Amer.).
1892Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads 68 So 'ark an' 'eed, you rookies, which is always grumblin' sore. 1893― Many Invent. 134 You can't drill, you can't walk, you can't shoot,..you awful rookies. 1900I. L. Reeves Bamboo Tales 100 One of his men, a green ‘rookie’. 1909R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 142 ‘Why, you blame rookie,’ sez I, ‘You don't really think I was mad do you?’ 1913Chicago Record-Herald 1 Mar. 12/2 Cal tried out Lefty Delano, a New Brunswick southpaw rookie. 1913H. A. Franck Zone Policeman 88 ix. 275 From the lieutenant to the newest uniformless ‘rookie’ every member of the police was swarming in and out of the building. 1918I. Crump Conscript 2989 6 Oh, you rookey. 1929Daily Express 15 Jan. 9/7 In 1915..he was a member of the Baltimore baseball team as a gawky ‘rookie’. 1930Punch 16 Apr. 443/1 The keen young rooky, just fresh from his public school. 1939Airman's Gaz. Dec., Who was the Rookie here who thought..Blanco was a Spanish General. 1956‘E. McBain’ Cop Hater (1958) ix. 81 A squad car driven by a young rookie. 1961F. H. Burgess Dict. Sailing 173 Rooky, a brand new hand. 1966Time 8 July 60/3 The new enlarged S. & S. will be in a more powerful position to bid for blockbusting authors, whose contracts have been escalating as rapidly as those of prize pro football rookies. 1975Listener 16 Jan. 66/2 [He] flew with Hunt to Hong Kong, as a police rookie. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 5-c/1 Rookies Chris Evert..and Rod Laver..headed the list of players named Tuesday to the World Team Tennis Western Division All-Star team. 1979Tucson (Arizona) Citizen 20 Sept. 1 d/1 He was rookie of the year on the Professional Golfers Association tour in 1965.
2. attrib. passing into adj.
1930E. H. Lavine Third Degree (1931) 102 The shooting of ‘rookie’ Patrolman James A. Broderick. 1944Chicago Daily News 21 Oct. 11/1 They expressed themselves..as willing to trade..for the rookie outfielder. 1954L. Armstrong Satchmo 37 They gave me the rooky greeting saying, ‘Welcome, Newcomer’. 1963Listener 4 Apr. 585/1 To the eye of the rookie policeman they were as unobtrusive as the pavement stones. 1968[see Charley-horse, charley horse]. 1972M. Williams Inside Number 10 xii. 322, I recall the times he was censorious with us about security and times when he treated us like the latest members of an awkward squad in a rookie army. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 18 Apr. c1/7 The Dallas Cowboys lost a fifth player to the World Football League Wednesday when rookie tight end John Kelsey of Missouri signed with the Honolulu Hawaiians. 1977Daily Mirror 30 Mar., Rookie police constable Paul Weaver, 19, saved a 74-year-old widow from her blazing home. 1977D. L. Altheide in Douglas & Johnson Existential Sociol. iv. 137 Rookie reporters..learn the ropes and eventually become bored with the questions of newcomers. 1980Washington Star 18 July a6/3 Reagan's nomination is the penultimate step in a steady 12-year drive to the White House that began with a feeble tentative pass at the office in 1968 when he was derided as a Grade B Hollywood movie actor and a rookie right-wing fringe governor of California. |