rookie

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: rook=ie

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rookie, n. sl.
1 a new recruit, esp. in the army or police.
2 US a new member of a sports team.

Etymology

corrupt. of recruit, after ROOK(1)

THESAURUS

rookie

abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, deb, debutant, draft, drafted man, draftee, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, learner, levy, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, raw recruit, recruit, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, tenderfoot, trainee, tyro, upstart