An amateur, someone who dabbles in a field out of casual interest rather than as a profession or serious interest.
A person with a general but superficial interest in any art or a branch of knowledge.
Pertaining to or like a dilettante.
An inexperienced recruit, especially in the police or armed forces.
A type of firecracker, used by farmers to scare rooks.
A novice.
An athlete either new to the sport or to a team or in his first year of professional competition, especially said of baseball, basketball, hockey and American football players.
non-professional; amateur