(n.) A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a greenhorn commander-in-chief and a Democrat to boot, Washington watchers say Obama has had scant opportunity to win the military's respect, let alone its affection.
(2) And on bass is Jack Lawrence, recognisable not only as a member of the Raconteurs and Cincinnati-based trio the Greenhornes, but also because of his striking resemblance to the Greek singer Nana Mouskouri.
(3) "I'm sick and tired of all that rubbish," continues Baron Funtimes, angrier now, as greenhorns Jaz, Myles, Jordan and co gulp and clench their bumcheeks.
(4) Liston was presumed invincible and the greenhorn, fresh-faced challenger was an unprecedented 8-1 underdog – odds that lengthened when, at the weigh-in, Clay’s apparent hysterics had doctors pronouncing him traumatised by fear.
(5) Wuthering Heights features Skins regular Kaya Scodelario as the adult Cathy, but her co-stars are all greenhorns: Shannon Beer, 13, and Solomon Glave, 14, as the young Cathy and Heathcliff, and 23-year-old James Howson as the older Heathcliff.
(6) But we never planned the Raconteurs either - I went over to Brendan [Benson's] house one afternoon, the Greenhornes were in town, and all of a sudden we were recording an album.
Greenie
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal's Emirates Stadium also has excellent eco credentials and the fact that an estimated 70% of Gunners' supporters use public transport to get to games gives the club further brownie (or should that be greenie) points.
(2) But rather than admit his industry policy and fiscal policy has helped cruel economic growth the prime minister is pretending that rising unemployment is all the fault of the greenies and the courts.
(3) This is an issue that falls uneasily between his band of greenies, whose main job is to look after the countryside, and the techies at the business department whose job, under Lord Mandelson, is to drive forward British business.
(4) The real injustice is the terrible service they get for their cash; the fact that people who can't afford the train or own a car don't have a public transport option, are physically excluded from travel – and for me, greenie as I am, that the most sustainable form of transport is the most expensive, the most inaccessible and the one that our transport secretary is choosing to neglect.
(5) Well, I'm back with an extremely Guardian Bioware paper cup of volcanically hot, greeny-grey liquid that's passing for tea in our King's Place HQ these days.
(6) For a wider range, check out the online gardening site Crocus.co.uk , or real greenies might enjoy the range of ex-industrial food barrels at the Centre for Alternative Technology (0845 330 4592, cat.org.uk).
(7) Other greenies crippling US growth in opposing safe tracking for natural gas.
(8) He can try to use the mine’s fate as a way to recast the climate debate back to the familiar theme of “bad” (and now apparently unpatriotic) greenies jeopardising “good” Aussie jobs.
(9) "Grud on a Greenie" is an exclamation of surprise, "Drokk" is a legal expletive and "Boing" is a spray on rubber coating which solidifies into a giant ball which people keep putting themselves in.
(10) Look past the statistical comedy – the jobs figures are actually great news | Greg Jericho Read more While the focus groups might assure him that “blaming the greenies” and “wedging labour” are the right things to do, such political tactics have nothing to do with the actual economic problems Australia currently faces.
(11) The problem for the unemployed is that goading greenies is not actually a mechanism for creating jobs.
(12) Doing an audition with bronchitis and coughing up a greeny on to the script in front of me.
(13) Among other things, today’s agenda included an imminent event built around Miliband “and young Greeny people, on the millennium development goals” (this is one of two mentions of the “G” word, and global issues way beyond Labour’s beloved cost-of-living crisis – proof, perhaps, that the Green threat is being taken seriously).
(14) German Chancellor Angela Merkel is anything but a left-wing greenie.
(15) Such might have been the hope entertained for an independent Scotland, if it weren’t for the “far left” and “greenies” that Rupert Murdoch warned were empowered by the campaign.
(16) He leaned out of a helicopter to inspect "the greeny, browny gunge" in the sea below.