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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GREE'NHORN, n. A raw youth.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: cub, greenhorn, rookie]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: obsolete greenhorn animal with green or young horns Date: 1682 1. an inexperienced or naive person 2. a newcomer (as to a country) unacquainted with local manners and customs

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. an inexperienced or foolish person; a new recruit.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Greenhorn Green"horn`, n. A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. --W. Irving.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Colloq.) Novice, inexperienced youth, raw hand, tyro.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A novice on the town, an undebauched young fellow, just initiated into the society of bucks and bloods.

Moby Thesaurus

abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, babe, baby, beginner, boob, boot, catechumen, chump, cinch, credulous person, cull, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, dull tool, dunce, dupe, easy mark, easy pickings, emigrant, entrant, fall guy, fish, fledgling, fool, freshman, gate-crasher, gobe-mouches, greener, greeny, gudgeon, gull, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, immigrant, incapable, incompetent, inductee, infant, initiate, innocent, intruder, know-nothing, leadpipe cinch, learner, lowbrow, mediocrity, middlebrow, monkey, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, no conjuror, no scholar, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, patsy, pigeon, plaything, postulant, prize sap, probationer, probationist, puddinghead, pushover, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, sap, saphead, schlemiel, settler, sitting duck, squatter, stooge, stowaway, sucker, tenderfoot, toy, trainee, trusting soul, tyro, unintelligentsia, upstart, victim