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greenhorn
noun
a person recently arrived in the city or recently immigrated to a new country UK, 1753- For mutual protection and to insure against loneliness in an alien land, greenhorns usually gather together. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, p. 71, 1950
- Better to have a father who drank and chased women or no father at all, than to have someone like this – a runt who didn’t even seem like a man, a real greenhorn[.] — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 84, 1952
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