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Newfie (also Newf or sometimes Newfy) is a colloquial term used in Canada for someone who is from Newfoundland, most often as a slur to refer to someone foolish or stupid from that place. The word was first recorded in a 1942 dictionary of slang. However, at this time Newfie only referred to Newfoundland itself; a Newfoundlander was a Newfier.

During the Second World War, sailors on convoy duty nicknamed St. John's (the capital of Newfoundland) Newfiejohn.

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A man visiting on business stops to stare and the Newfie beckons him over, explains that what he is doing is a way of relieving stress.

Old Newfie, drifting in stately orbit around a planetless brown dwarf, was simply too big and too flimsy to weather a supernova storm at a range of just over a parsec.

Normally Old Newfie only received one liner a month, clearing via customs to transfer passengers and cargo to the short-haul local freighters that bounced back and forth across the last parsec.

Old Newfie, only to be exposed as obsolete junk when they arrived here.

Consequently, the terminal was no bigger than the hub of Old Newfie, its decor dingy and heavily influenced by the rustic fad of a decade or so earlier.

She and her family survived the induced nova that destroyed their home world because they lived on Portal Station Eleven, Old Newfie, a refueling and transfer station nearly a light year from the star.

The information you stumbled across on Old Newfie was more important than I realized at the time.

ReMastered focus on you, and the items you found aboard Old Newfie before its evacuation, suggest that it was used as a point of entry for some years, and that the insurgency group operating in Moscow were careless.

Old Newfie spinning in stately splendor before the wounded eye socket of eternity, a red-rimmed hollow gouged from the interstellar void by the explosion of Moscow Prime six years ago.

Pretty much everyone but Fiat and his boys was in the limo, leaving little space for one gigantic Newfie and me.

It had chosen a Newfie above all other forms because it thought them the most handsome of all sentient beings.

GEE veterans who got his start spraying orange dye on baby seals in Newfie, or getting beat senseless by Frog commandos in the South Pacific.

Their records probably look like yours, only that time it was a Newfie or something.

Old Newfie Roger was still a possibility, for a start, and so was old Dr.

And Krista would tell him the whole sad tale all over again, her Newfie upbringing making it impossible for her to skip the part about the cow shitting itself on the hood.