webbie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A user of WebTV, a service formerly used to connect to the World Wide Web through a television rather than a computer.
Derogatory
noun
Alternative form of webbie.
Example Sentences
- "This is the lovely, tolerant, and cooperative attitude that so endears Webbies to the rest of the folks on UseNet. Now run along, little boy, until you learn the difference between UseNet and the WWW. Oh, and until you learn how to quote and attribute properly."
- ""Even a webbie can attribute" is not missing anything, let alone a noun. Attribute is a verb. Even a webbie can poop. Even a webbie can suck. Even a webbie can think. Hee-hee."
- "This was what happened when the AOLers, WebTVers, and Google Groupers showed up during the Endless September. We don't need to go through that again! Otherwise, instead of ending up with ex-webbies who have adapted to USENET, USENET might be converted into a vast web-board/social-networking site/blog by webbies […]"
Etymology
From Web + -ie.