greenhornn.

Brit.

/ˈɡriːnhɔːn/, U.S.

/ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɔrn/

Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and horn n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., horn n.

Etymology: < green adj. + horn n.The meaning development shown by senses 2 and 3 was perhaps from reference to a new or ‘green’ horn on an animal (compare quot. 1563 at sense 5 showing green horned ), hence (by metonymy) a young horned animal, hence (by metaphorical extension) any young or inexperienced person or animal (compare also green adj. 8c, green man n. 2). In the following early example apparently the proper name of a draught ox:a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 12 Io furth, Greynhorne! and war oute, Gryme! Drawes on, God gif you ill to tyme!

†1. A horn from a fresh animal carcass. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1455 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 365 (MED) Item in eschuyng of the grete and corrupt stenche..by bying and cuttyng of grene hornes oute of hides within this Citee.

2. A recently enlisted soldier; a raw recruit.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit

besognier1584

bisogno1591

bezonian1592

besonio1603

besogne?1615

greenhorn1650

lister1678

recruit1707

rookie1868

recruity1887

recruitee1896

rook1902

boot1915

inductee1941

sprog1941

yardbird1941

skinhead1943

macker1944

red-arse1946

1650 Large Relation Fight at Leith 31 July The Scotch King being upon the Castle hill, to see his men which he called his Green Hornes beaten.

1682 C. Irvine Hist. Sc. Nomencl. 241 Tyrones, fresh-water Souldiers, or new levyed; Greenhorns.

1833 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 193 You seem to be but a young hand—or as we call it in this here harmy—a green horn.

1873 tr. F. W. Hackländer Soldier in Time of Peace xiv. 248 You should all be ashamed..at having anything to do with this greenhorn of a recruit.

1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxii. 331 Then, full-fledged tumultary legionaries, we were marshalled as well as greenhorns could be ranked.

1990 USA Today (Nexis) 7 Sept. a4 The 24th, like most U.S. units here, is a mixture of greenhorns and gray-beards.

3. A raw, inexperienced person, esp. a novice in a trade. Also: a recent immigrant. Cf. greener n.²

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society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner

younglingOE

new-comeOE

novice1340

ginner?c1400

beginner1470

apprentice1489

prentice1489

infant1526

freshmana1557

intrant1560

enterer1565

puny?1570

weakling1575

new comeling1587

novist1587

incipient1589

puisne1592

abecedary1596

neophyte1600

abecedarian1603

bachelor1604

novelist?1608

alphabetary1611

breeching boy1611

tiro1611

alphabetarian1614

principiant1619

unexperienced1622

velvet head1631

undergraduatea1659

young stager1664

greenhorn1672

battledore boy1693

youngster1706

tironist1716

novitiatea1734

recruit1749

griffin1793

initiate1811

Johnny Newcome1815

Johnny Raw1823

griff1829

plebe1833

Johnny-come-lately1839

new chum1851

blanc-bec1853

fledgling1856

rookie1868

elementarian1876

tenderfoot1881

shorthorn1888

new kid1894

cheechako1897

ring-neck1898

Johnny1901

rook1902

fresh meat1908

malihini1914

initiand1915

stooge1930

intakea1943

cub1966

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton

innocentc1386

greenhead1576

gonyc1580

ninnyhammer1592

chicken1600

loach1605

simplician1605

hichcock1607

smelt1607

foppasty1611

dovea1616

goslinga1616

funge1621

simplicity1633

gewgaw1634

squab1640

simpletonian1652

ninny-whoop1653

softhead1654

foppotee1663

greenhorn1672

sumph1682

sawney1699

sillyton1708

gaby?1746

gobbin?1746

green goose1768

nin-a-kin1787

Jacob1811

green1824

sillikin1832

greeny1834

softhorn1836

sucker1838

softie1850

dope1851

soft1854

verigreen1854

peanut1864

daftie1872

josser1886

naïf1891

yapc1894

barm-stick1924

knobhead1931

sook1933

nig-nog1953

sawn1953

pronk1959

stiffy1965

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun] > inexperienced person

imperite1614

greenhorn1672

unadept1745

griffin1793

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people

greenhead1576

unexperienced1622

green man1635

greenhorn1672

amateur1767

green1824

greeny1834

Hoosier1846

shavetail1846

Boy Scout1918

nig-nog1953

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > new or inexperienced

greenhorn1790

greener1876

sinkeh1878

tenderfoot1881

1672 G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks To Rdr. sig. ¶¶3 If they love to juik under deck, like Green-horns, having no courage in themselves, or confidence in their cause.

1705 T. Edwards Let. to E. Calamy in Diocesan Episcopacy sig. A8 I have not that Regard for the Self-sufficiency and Confidence of a Green Horn, as I have for those Reverend Gray Heads.

1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 The scale..consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart, Honest Fellow, Joyous Spirit, Buck, and Blood.

1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 Peculiarities which..would have denominated me a Greenhorn.

1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 92 Overseers are glad to get green-horns, because they can impose hardships on them.

1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 176 If we stand that..we should be greenhorns.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xx. 175 He..looked down upon them with contempt as greenhorns, little versed in the noble science of woodcraft.

1859 H. Greeley Overland Journey 359 The chances for ‘big strikes’ in the mines are few, and greenhorns cannot share them.

1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (1886) ii. 29 I suppose you are not hoaxing us? It is, I know, sometimes thought allowable to take a greenhorn in.

1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 49/2 I know I'm only a greenhorn, but I'll work—I'll work my fingers off.

1971 I. Metzker & D. L. Levy tr. Bintel Brief 25 In general at least some sort of a timepiece was considered essential to the greenhorn starting his new life in America.

2004 Smithsonian June 109/1 Ricky Jay plays a craps dealer and con man named Eddie Sawyer, and woe to the greenhorn who bellies up to his table.

4. Originally Scottish. Horn which has been made translucent by a process of heating and impregnation with oils or fats, used as a material for manufacture. Frequently attributive, esp. in green-horn spoon. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > horn > types of

unicorna1533

devil's horn1583

ram's horn1611

greenhorn1725

buffalo-horn1783

stag-horn1815

buck-horn1820

deer-horn1843

devil horn1854

antler1872

rhino horn1889

1625 Brechin Test. IV. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 198 Ane dusson grein hornit sponis.]

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii. 36 The Green-Horn Spoons, Beech-Luggies mingle On Skelfs foregainst the Door.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 112 Green horn cutties rattling in her lap.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 518/1 A large spoon of green horn.

1906 A. McCormick Tinkler-gypsies Galloway (1907) 165 He presented the medical student..with a divider and a dozen green horn spoons.

2003 S. Rivers & N. Umney Conservation of Furnit. 202 This further processing yielded a translucent material (green horn) that could be readily split into thin sheets.

5. A young horned animal. rare.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > projection on head > horn > animal with horns > with young horns

greenhorn1871

1563 Protocol Bk. J. Drummond (Edinb. Reg. House) 30 ix oxin,..ane grene-hornit.]

1871 E. E. J. McAlpine Doings in Maryland i. 15 ‘I say, neighbor, that thare cow must be a tarnel greenhorn if she gives them folks any milk with the fodder she gits’, said a passing countryman to his fellow-traveler.

1906 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 136 At first greenhorn was applied figuratively to a cow or deer or other horned animal when its horns are immature.

Compounds

General attributive (in sense 3).

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1738 J. Railton Army's Regulator 117 It being a most important Charge, and consequently very improper for green-horn'd giddy Boys..that do not give themselves the Trouble to study it.]

1753 ‘Nomentatus’ Adventurer No. 100. 179 Some are so soon initiated in the mysteries of the town, that they are never publicly known in their Greenhorn state.

1877 Metrop. Pulpit June 135/2 The lad who determines to become a blacksmith may enter upon his work,..and with sooty face look out upon the greenhorn boys and feel above them.

1922 McClure's Mag. Apr. 87/2 It is not right I stay in a class with greenhorn beginners like Spitnick.

1952 B. Cotton Glory Rd. 61 The 24th New Jersey, one of the greenhorn regiments in Kimball's brigade, could find only thirty-six men..after the fighting stopped.

1995 J. Almond Dict. Word Origins 111 A person who does not know his way about is like a young or ‘greenhorn’ ox that doesn't know which way to turn when you shout ‘gee’ or ‘haw’ at it.

2004 W. B. McCloskey Raiders i. iv. 55 Hank seldom traversed Whale Passage without remembering the horror during his greenhorn salad days.

Derivatives

ˈgreenhornism n. the character or condition of a greenhorn, inexperience.In quot. 1992: a word usage which betrays one's status as a greenhorn.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun] > state of

inexperiencedness1725

griffinage1829

greenhornism1831

uninitiation1834

neophytism1845

griffinhood1854

1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke III. iv. vi. 46 As for Lady Afy, he execrated the greenhornism which had made him feign a passion, and then get caught where he meant to capture.

1905 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 26 Oct. 8/2 I will give you a description of my feelings as they were when I for the first time had American soil under my feet, and I think..that everyone who has gone through the period of ‘greenhornism’, will sympathize with me.

1992 Western Folklore 51 295 Railride,..currently used especially by newer members of the tramp subculture and considered somewhat of a ‘greenhornism’ by more experienced members.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greenhorn
释义	greenhornn. Brit. /ˈɡriːnhɔːn/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɔrn/ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and horn n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., horn n. Etymology: < green adj. + horn n.The meaning development shown by senses 2 and 3 was perhaps from reference to a new or ‘green’ horn on an animal (compare quot. 1563 at sense 5 showing green horned ), hence (by metonymy) a young horned animal, hence (by metaphorical extension) any young or inexperienced person or animal (compare also green adj. 8c, green man n. 2). In the following early example apparently the proper name of a draught ox:a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 12 Io furth, Greynhorne! and war oute, Gryme! Drawes on, God gif you ill to tyme! †1. A horn from a fresh animal carcass. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1455 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1911) K. 365 (MED) Item in eschuyng of the grete and corrupt stenche..by bying and cuttyng of grene hornes oute of hides within this Citee. 2. A recently enlisted soldier; a raw recruit. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by type of service > [noun] > recruit besognier1584 bisogno1591 bezonian1592 besonio1603 besogne?1615 greenhorn1650 lister1678 recruit1707 rookie1868 recruity1887 recruitee1896 rook1902 boot1915 inductee1941 sprog1941 yardbird1941 skinhead1943 macker1944 red-arse1946 1650 Large Relation Fight at Leith 31 July The Scotch King being upon the Castle hill, to see his men which he called his Green Hornes beaten. 1682 C. Irvine Hist. Sc. Nomencl. 241 Tyrones, fresh-water Souldiers, or new levyed; Greenhorns. 1833 United Service Jrnl. Feb. 193 You seem to be but a young hand—or as we call it in this here harmy—a green horn. 1873 tr. F. W. Hackländer Soldier in Time of Peace xiv. 248 You should all be ashamed..at having anything to do with this greenhorn of a recruit. 1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio iii. xxii. 331 Then, full-fledged tumultary legionaries, we were marshalled as well as greenhorns could be ranked. 1990 USA Today (Nexis) 7 Sept. a4 The 24th, like most U.S. units here, is a mixture of greenhorns and gray-beards. 3. A raw, inexperienced person, esp. a novice in a trade. Also: a recent immigrant. Cf. greener n.² ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > novice or beginner younglingOE new-comeOE novice1340 ginner?c1400 beginner1470 apprentice1489 prentice1489 infant1526 freshmana1557 intrant1560 enterer1565 puny?1570 weakling1575 new comeling1587 novist1587 incipient1589 puisne1592 abecedary1596 neophyte1600 abecedarian1603 bachelor1604 novelist?1608 alphabetary1611 breeching boy1611 tiro1611 alphabetarian1614 principiant1619 unexperienced1622 velvet head1631 undergraduatea1659 young stager1664 greenhorn1672 battledore boy1693 youngster1706 tironist1716 novitiatea1734 recruit1749 griffin1793 initiate1811 Johnny Newcome1815 Johnny Raw1823 griff1829 plebe1833 Johnny-come-lately1839 new chum1851 blanc-bec1853 fledgling1856 rookie1868 elementarian1876 tenderfoot1881 shorthorn1888 new kid1894 cheechako1897 ring-neck1898 Johnny1901 rook1902 fresh meat1908 malihini1914 initiand1915 stooge1930 intakea1943 cub1966 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton innocentc1386 greenhead1576 gonyc1580 ninnyhammer1592 chicken1600 loach1605 simplician1605 hichcock1607 smelt1607 foppasty1611 dovea1616 goslinga1616 funge1621 simplicity1633 gewgaw1634 squab1640 simpletonian1652 ninny-whoop1653 softhead1654 foppotee1663 greenhorn1672 sumph1682 sawney1699 sillyton1708 gaby?1746 gobbin?1746 green goose1768 nin-a-kin1787 Jacob1811 green1824 sillikin1832 greeny1834 softhorn1836 sucker1838 softie1850 dope1851 soft1854 verigreen1854 peanut1864 daftie1872 josser1886 naïf1891 yapc1894 barm-stick1924 knobhead1931 sook1933 nig-nog1953 sawn1953 pronk1959 stiffy1965 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun] > inexperienced person imperite1614 greenhorn1672 unadept1745 griffin1793 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people greenhead1576 unexperienced1622 green man1635 greenhorn1672 amateur1767 green1824 greeny1834 Hoosier1846 shavetail1846 Boy Scout1918 nig-nog1953 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to status > [noun] > new or inexperienced greenhorn1790 greener1876 sinkeh1878 tenderfoot1881 1672 G. Sinclair Hydrostaticks To Rdr. sig. ¶¶3 If they love to juik under deck, like Green-horns, having no courage in themselves, or confidence in their cause. 1705 T. Edwards Let. to E. Calamy in Diocesan Episcopacy sig. A8 I have not that Regard for the Self-sufficiency and Confidence of a Green Horn, as I have for those Reverend Gray Heads. 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 The scale..consists of eight degrees; Greenhorn, Jemmy, Jessamy, Smart, Honest Fellow, Joyous Spirit, Buck, and Blood. 1753 Scots Mag. Oct. 490 Peculiarities which..would have denominated me a Greenhorn. 1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 92 Overseers are glad to get green-horns, because they can impose hardships on them. 1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London I. viii. 176 If we stand that..we should be greenhorns. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xx. 175 He..looked down upon them with contempt as greenhorns, little versed in the noble science of woodcraft. 1859 H. Greeley Overland Journey 359 The chances for ‘big strikes’ in the mines are few, and greenhorns cannot share them. 1885 H. R. Haggard King Solomon's Mines (1886) ii. 29 I suppose you are not hoaxing us? It is, I know, sometimes thought allowable to take a greenhorn in. 1926 People's Home Jrnl. Feb. 49/2 I know I'm only a greenhorn, but I'll work—I'll work my fingers off. 1971 I. Metzker & D. L. Levy tr. Bintel Brief 25 In general at least some sort of a timepiece was considered essential to the greenhorn starting his new life in America. 2004 Smithsonian June 109/1 Ricky Jay plays a craps dealer and con man named Eddie Sawyer, and woe to the greenhorn who bellies up to his table. 4. Originally Scottish. Horn which has been made translucent by a process of heating and impregnation with oils or fats, used as a material for manufacture. Frequently attributive, esp. in green-horn spoon. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > bone or horn > [noun] > horn > types of unicorna1533 devil's horn1583 ram's horn1611 greenhorn1725 buffalo-horn1783 stag-horn1815 buck-horn1820 deer-horn1843 devil horn1854 antler1872 rhino horn1889 1625 Brechin Test. IV. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue f. 198 Ane dusson grein hornit sponis.] 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. ii. 36 The Green-Horn Spoons, Beech-Luggies mingle On Skelfs foregainst the Door. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess iii. 112 Green horn cutties rattling in her lap. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 518/1 A large spoon of green horn. 1906 A. McCormick Tinkler-gypsies Galloway (1907) 165 He presented the medical student..with a divider and a dozen green horn spoons. 2003 S. Rivers & N. Umney Conservation of Furnit. 202 This further processing yielded a translucent material (green horn) that could be readily split into thin sheets. 5. A young horned animal. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [noun] > projection on head > horn > animal with horns > with young horns greenhorn1871 1563 Protocol Bk. J. Drummond (Edinb. Reg. House) 30 ix oxin,..ane grene-hornit.] 1871 E. E. J. McAlpine Doings in Maryland i. 15 ‘I say, neighbor, that thare cow must be a tarnel greenhorn if she gives them folks any milk with the fodder she gits’, said a passing countryman to his fellow-traveler. 1906 Pop. Sci. Monthly Feb. 136 At first greenhorn was applied figuratively to a cow or deer or other horned animal when its horns are immature. Compounds General attributive (in sense 3). ΚΠ 1738 J. Railton Army's Regulator 117 It being a most important Charge, and consequently very improper for green-horn'd giddy Boys..that do not give themselves the Trouble to study it.] 1753 ‘Nomentatus’ Adventurer No. 100. 179 Some are so soon initiated in the mysteries of the town, that they are never publicly known in their Greenhorn state. 1877 Metrop. Pulpit June 135/2 The lad who determines to become a blacksmith may enter upon his work,..and with sooty face look out upon the greenhorn boys and feel above them. 1922 McClure's Mag. Apr. 87/2 It is not right I stay in a class with greenhorn beginners like Spitnick. 1952 B. Cotton Glory Rd. 61 The 24th New Jersey, one of the greenhorn regiments in Kimball's brigade, could find only thirty-six men..after the fighting stopped. 1995 J. Almond Dict. Word Origins 111 A person who does not know his way about is like a young or ‘greenhorn’ ox that doesn't know which way to turn when you shout ‘gee’ or ‘haw’ at it. 2004 W. B. McCloskey Raiders i. iv. 55 Hank seldom traversed Whale Passage without remembering the horror during his greenhorn salad days. Derivatives ˈgreenhornism n. the character or condition of a greenhorn, inexperience.In quot. 1992: a word usage which betrays one's status as a greenhorn. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [noun] > state of inexperiencedness1725 griffinage1829 greenhornism1831 uninitiation1834 neophytism1845 griffinhood1854 1831 B. Disraeli Young Duke III. iv. vi. 46 As for Lady Afy, he execrated the greenhornism which had made him feign a passion, and then get caught where he meant to capture. 1905 Racine (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 26 Oct. 8/2 I will give you a description of my feelings as they were when I for the first time had American soil under my feet, and I think..that everyone who has gone through the period of ‘greenhornism’, will sympathize with me. 1992 Western Folklore 51 295 Railride,..currently used especially by newer members of the tramp subculture and considered somewhat of a ‘greenhornism’ by more experienced members. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1455
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