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green head, ˈgreenhead2
[f. green a. + head n.]
†1. (See head n. 2 a.) A young, immature, or untrained intellect. Obs.
1588J. Udall Diotrephes (Arb.) 11 Euerye yoong boy will take vpon him to teache the ancient, and to reproue them, for that their greene heades thinke not to bee true. 1591R. Turnbull Expos. Jas. 175 To whom..in the conceits of their grene heads, they wil not obey. 1694F. Bragge Disc. Parables xi. (1706) I. 373 The Difference between living under the mild and prudent Government of his Father, and being left to the Conduct of his own ill instructed and green Head.
2. (See head n. 7.) A raw, inexperienced person; a simpleton; an ignoramus. ? Obs.
1589Marprel. Epit. B ij, The author of the Learned Discourse, and 500 green heads more that are on their side. 1600Holland Livy xxxviii. lii. (1609) 1017 With the checks and taunts of certaine greene heads and busie youths. 1652Bp. Patrick Funeral Serm. in J. Smith's Sel. Disc. 526 Holy and pious counsels for the teaching of rawer and greener heads. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Green-head, a very raw Novice or inexperienc'd Fellow. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 311 Hadst thou been a born Fool, or a raw Greenhead, or a doting Greyhead. 1781Cowper Conversat. 626 Some green heads, as void of wit as thought. 1820Scott Monast. xvii, Methinks there is use for the grey hairs on the old scalp, were it but to instruct the green head by precept and by example.
†3. One entitled to wear the green turban, a descendant of Mahomet. Obs.
1609W. Biddulph in T. Lavender Trav. (1612) 71 There was a Sheriffe or a Green-head in Aleppo, whom they account Mahomets kindred. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1623 The cadie of Tripoly being a Green-head that is one of the Parentage of Mahomet.
4. One of several biting flies of the family Tabanidæ, esp. Tabanus nigrovittatus.
1837A. Wetmore Gaz. Missouri 65 In the early settlement of the country, the value of the prairies was under⁓rated by a knowledge of the mischievous power vested in the greenheads, or prairie fly. 1838E. Flagg Far West II. 107 (Th.), [My horse was] severely troubled by that terrible insect, so notorious all over the West, the large green-bottle prairie fly, called the ‘greenhead’. 1888J. Kirkland McVeys 18 What can be the matter with that horse?.. Is he crazy? Pretty near, I guess, with a greenhead on him somewhere where he can't get at it. 1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris v. 113 He twitched like a steer which green-heads were biting.
5. An Australian ant, Ectatomma metallicum.
1907W. W. Froggatt Austral. Insects 93 The ‘Green⁓head’, Ectatomma metallicum, is a common ant of medium size that lives in small communities under stones or logs. 1926Glasgow Herald 19 Dec. 6 The greenhead is the most vicious attacker of man. 1970E. F. Riek in Insects of Australia (C.S.I.R.O.) xxxvii. 910/2 One specimen is recorded from the nest of Ectatomma metallicum, the green⁓head ant.
Hence † green-headed a., raw, inexperienced.
1569Newton Cicero's Old Age 43 a, Such youthly prankes and exercises, as lustye and greene-headed galantes do enure themselues withal. 1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift 31 Those are greene headed that long for reformations. 1649Roberts Clavis Bibl. 214 Rehoboam's tyrannical Answer..according to the advice of his green-headed Counsellours. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 179 That with green-headed Ignorance I would presume to go on to the Gate. |