Home › Words › N › newlingnewlingnewling means one who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie.EtymologyFrom new + -ling. Cognate with Dutch nieuweling (“a novice, beginner”), German Neuling (“a novice”).nounOne who is new (to something); a newcomer; a novice; a newbie.e.g.“"[…] Seest thou not by the stripling's face that he be a newling (newcomer) in the town."” — 1879, Henry Mayhew, The boyhood of Martin Luther:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).