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greenhornish

greenhornish adjective: like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.

Adjective

greenhornish (comparative more greenhornish, superlative most greenhornish)

  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

Forms of greenhornish

comparativemore greenhornish
superlativemost greenhornish

Origin of greenhornish

From greenhorn + -ish.

Questions about greenhornish

What does greenhornish mean?
Greenhornish means like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.
What part of speech is greenhornish?
Greenhornish is an adjective.

Words near greenhornish in the dictionary

  1. Greenhoe
  2. Greenholme
  3. greenhood
  4. greenhoods
  5. greenhorn
  6. greenhornish
  7. greenhornism
  8. greenhorns
  9. greenhouse
  10. greenhouse bug
  11. greenhouse bugs

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