What Does This Mean?
Korean online-game and community slang, literally "newbie smell", for the telltale signs that someone is new: clumsy play, basic questions, or an unpolished way of speaking in a game or forum. It can be a gentle observation or a mild put-down, depending on tone.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The way he asked how to open the map had total 뉴비냄새."
LORE & ORIGIN
Combines 뉴비 (newbie, a loanword for a newcomer to an online game or community) with 냄새 ("smell"), the "gives off an aura of" image. A Korean wiki page documents 뉴비 as a term for a recent arrival to games and communities; for the compound itself, recent term; no dated source found yet.
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