different between midgie vs midbie

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?d?i/

Etymology 1

midge +? ie

Noun

midgie (plural midgies)

1. (Scotland, Tyneside) A midge.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from mid(den) +? -y.

Noun

midgie (plural midgies)

1. (Scotland, colloquial) A midden.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 32:

     They did not have good clothes and were midgie-rakers. Their das done that, they just raked yer midgie and got yer old rubbish.

English

Etymology

mid +? -bie, after newbie.

Noun

midbie (plural midbies)

1. (Internet) An intermediate user or player.
   • 2008, Tom Boellstorff, Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human, Princeton University Press (2008), ?ISBN, page 125:

     As persons spent more time in Second Life, their newbie status would fade and they would become known as residents, players, participants, or even "midbies." Midbie status was shaped not just by the absolute amount of time since the creation of an account, but by the cumulative amount of time spent inworld.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:midbie.

Coordinate terms

• newbie
• oldbie