Meaning of GREENHORN
| Pronunciation: | | 'green`horn
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| | Definition: | | [n] an awkward and inexperienced youth |
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| | Synonyms: | | cub, rookie |
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| | See Also: | | beginner, initiate, novice, tiro, tyro | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Green"horn`\, n.
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. --W.
Irving.
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| | Related Terms: | | abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, babe, baby, beginner, boob, boot, catechumen, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, dull tool, dunce, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, emigrant, entrant, fall guy, fish, fledgling, fool, freshman, gate-crasher, gobe-mouches, greener, greeny, gudgeon, gull, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, immigrant, incapable, incompetent, inductee, infant, initiate, innocent, intruder, know-nothing, leadpipe cinch, learner, lowbrow, mediocrity, middlebrow, monkey, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, no conjuror, no scholar, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, patsy, pigeon, plaything, postulant, prize sap, probationer, probationist, puddinghead, pushover, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, sap, saphead, schlemiel, settler, sitting duck, squatter, stooge, stowaway, sucker, tenderfoot, toy, trainee, trusting soul, tyro, unintelligentsia, upstart, victim |
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