What the heck is a Greenhorn?

Question

I was called a greenhorn and my friends gasped. They said it meant I was an immigrant. Yeh, I was born in England but why is it soooooooo insulting?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

A greenhorn is someone new to something. An amateur. A novice. "As for horse riding, Jeeves was a greenhorn."

When a cow or bull, or steer is just beginning to grow its horns, it is called a greenhorn.

Answer 3

Greenhorn -

a person who is just starting out in a field of activity.

a novice or beginner.

an inexperienced person.

Origin of greenhorn -

A "greenhorn" is simply a newcomer or inexperienced person, especially a novice in a trade or business.

"Greenhorn" first appeared back in the 15th century meaning a young ox with new, or "green," horns.

("Green" has been used as a metaphor for "young" or "inexperienced," by analogy to a young plant, for hundreds of years.)

By about 1650, "greenhorn" was being applied to newly-enlisted army recruits, and shortly thereafter "greenhorn" came to mean any inexperienced person.

Unfortunately, since the naive among us can easily be hornswoggled, "greenhorn" can also sometimes mean "sucker" or "simpleton."