green

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

Uncouth, raw, inexperienced, applied to persons, a metaphor derived from green or unripe fruit; vegetables or fruit that are growing. It answers to the English use of the word verdant.


A little sassy rascal come up before me and stood and put his thumb to the side of his nose, and looked up with an awful sassy look at me and hollered out, "Aint ye green!"--Maj. Downing, May-day, p. 45.

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