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Greenhorn

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1672, OED Evaluation: N/A

A raw, inexperienced person, esp. a novice in a trade.

ExampleMeaning
I would like to go to the Dublin," and he said, "Oh you have a day pass. You can travel anywhere. Get on the buses and do- " and I didn 't know, you know. Being a greenhorn, we didn 't know. So anyhow, we went back into Dublin and we did our- our shopping and then we went back home. Yeah, oh yeah, we had a wonderful time.
An amateur
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I was buffing the floor 'cause I was working housekeeping eh, and he threw a slipper at me. Thinking nothing of it, just greenhorn, I bring him his slipper back and I says "Henry don't do that because I'm doing the floor". I start buffing the floor, he throws his slipper again (laughs). I bring it back and I no sooner said "Henry please, you-know, don't do it again" he spit on me and jumped me.
An amateur
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Then- then- then that's where they- well the wind was strong, shouldn't be up there and not picking up- (laughs) if you have a piece of plywood and it's pulling you, let it go. I don't know why ah- and he wasn't a greenhorn, like I mean he's been working, doing that stuff for quite a few years. He wasn't a young kid. He- you get some young kids they start they come on the job and nobody is- is telling them anything eh.
An amateur
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Green-horn is another mining term. Someone's who's fresh. Fresh at the mine is a green-horn. Speaker: Yeah, but a green- green-horn term comes from ah um rearing cattle.
An amateur