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greenhornish en · ADJ

Etymology

From greenhorn + -ish.

Meanings

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:

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