greenhornish

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

greenhorn +‎ -ish

Adjective[edit]

greenhornish (comparative more greenhornish, superlative most greenhornish)

  1. Like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.
    • 2007, Erica Jong, Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters, page 24:
      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.