greenhornish

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adjective

Like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.

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Meanings

adjectivegreenhornish (comparative more greenhornish, superlative most greenhornish)

comparative more greenhornish · superlative most greenhornish

  1. Like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.

    I was sent, of course, to a relative, a huge woman with a crooked wig and many chins with as many wens, who called herself my aunt Chaya and would only ever call me greenhornish Soora.

    2007, Erica Jong, Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters, page 24

Origin

From greenhorn + -ish.

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APA

greenhornish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhornish

MLA

“greenhornish.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhornish. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “greenhornish,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/greenhornish.

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