nooblet
n.— «I was a young nooblet and probably should have let it slide but instead I snuck into her office and opened up her Macintosh’s word editing software with the intent of some lil’ bastardry. I found the option to replace a mistyped word with another that the user entered. After that, whenever she typed the word “the,” it was replaced with “WARNING! VIRUS DETECTED! PULL PLUG FROM OUTLET AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!”» —“Dead On” by eldavojohn Slashdot Jan. 16, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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