different between schoolgirl vs beginner

English

Etymology

school +? girl

Noun

schoolgirl (plural schoolgirls)

1. A girl attending school.
   • 1975, John Greaves, Dickens at Doughty Street (page 33)

     That he married the wrong sister (as is sometimes suggested) is scarcely a feasible explanation, for Mary was hardly more than a schoolgirl when Dickens first came into the Hogarth family.

Hypernyms

• pupil, student (especially US)

Derived terms

• schoolgirlish
• schoolgirlism
• schoolgirl pin
• schoolgirly

Translations

See also

• schoolboy
• schoolchild

Verb

schoolgirl (third-person singular simple present schoolgirls, present participle schoolgirling, simple past and past participle schoolgirled)

1. (transitive, wrestling, rare) To restrain in a schoolgirl pin.
   • 2004, Wrestling Observer Newsletter (page 57)

     Victoria & Nidia beat Stratus & Kim in 3:45 when Victoria schoolgirled Kim.

   • 2017, James Dixon, Arnold Furious, Bob Dahlstrom, The Raw Files: 2001 (page 121)

     She tags herself in only to get schoolgirled for the pin.

English

Etymology

From Middle English begynner, equivalent to begin +? -er. Cognate with West Frisian begjinner (“beginner”), Dutch beginner (“beginner”), Danish nybegynder (“beginner, novice”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /b????n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /b????n?/

Noun

beginner (plural beginners)

1. Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.

2. Someone who sets something in motion.

3. (theater) An actor who is present on stage in the first moments of a play.
   • 1949, Walter Macqueen-Pope, ?Gaiety: Theatre of Enchantment (page 60)

     On the stage, the beginners for the first piece had taken their places — the chorus were there, scared but determined, and in the wings waited Harlequin, in the person of Charles Lyall […]

Synonyms

• (recent starter): amateur, newbie
• See also Thesaurus:beginner

Derived terms

• beginnerish
• beginner's trap

Translations

Further reading

• beginner in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• beginner in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• benigner, bergenin

Dutch

Etymology

From beginnen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????n?r/
• Hyphenation: be?gin?ner
• Rhymes: -?n?r

Noun

beginner m (plural beginners, diminutive beginnertje n)

1. Someone who is just starting something, or has only recently started (similar to English)

Derived terms

• beginnerscursus