DCHP-3

greenhorn

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Fur Trade

See 1920 quote.

See: green hand(def. 1)

Quotations

1920
We were "greenhorns", a name applied to men during their first year in the service.
1930
During the day a boat came out to us from York Factory, manned with a mixed crew of Indians, Half breeds & French Canadian Voyageurs, all different in appearance, dress and language to anything we "greenhorns" had ever run across before.
1939
Trading parties were going out. . . . The year was 1862. I was a greenhorn.
2†n.

in lumbering, fishing, etc., an inexperienced man.

See: green hand(def. 2)

Quotations

1854
A cheaper class of men, generally the "greenhorns," are employed as road cutters.
1896
There is nothing that so cheers the heart of the lumberman as to play a practical joke on one whom he calls a "greenhorn," or, in other words, any one unused to the strange ways and flavor of the lumber-camps. . . .