greenhorn
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noun \-ˌhȯrn\Definition of GREENHORN
1
: an inexperienced or naive person
2
: a newcomer (as to a country) unacquainted with local manners and customs
See Examples of GREENHORN
- He's not the most sophisticated businessman you'll ever meet, but he's no greenhorn.
- <go easy on him—he's just a greenhorn and doesn't have all the experience you do>
Origin of GREENHORN
obsolete greenhorn animal with green or young horns
First Known Use: 1682
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Rhymes with GREENHORN
acorn, adorn, airborne, althorn, baseborn, bass horn, bicorne, blackthorn, blue corn, boxthorn, broomcorn, buckthorn, bullhorn, careworn, Christ's-thorn, Dearborn, dehorn, dent corn, earthborn, einkorn, field corn, firethorn, firstborn, flint corn, foghorn, forewarn, forlorn, forworn, freeborn, French horn, green corn, hartshorn, hawthorn, highborn, hulled corn, inborn, inkhorn, krummhorn, leghorn, longhorn, lovelorn, lowborn, newborn, outworn, pod corn, popcorn, post horn, pronghorn, ramshorn, reborn, saxhorn, seaborne, self-born, shipborne, shoehorn, shopworn, shorthorn, skyborne, soilborne, stillborn, stinkhorn, suborn, sweet corn, tick-borne, timeworn, tinhorn, toilworn, tricorne, trueborn, twice-born, twinborn, unborn, unworn, wayworn, wellborn, well-worn, wind-borne
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