Greenhorn (or Green-Head, or Greenlander), subs. (common).—A simpleton; a fool; a gull (q.v.); also a new hand. For synonyms, see Buffle and Cabbage-head. To come from Greenland = to be fresh to things; raw (q.v.). Greenlander sometimes = an Irishman. 1753. Adventurer, No. 100. A slouch in my gait, a long lank head of hair and an unfashionable suit of drab-coloured cloth, would have denominated me a greenhorn, or in other words, a country put very green. 1815. Scott, Guy Mannering, ch. xliv. ‘Why, wha but a crack-brained greenhorn wad hae let them keep up the siller that ye left at the Gordon-Arms?’ 1837. Dickens, Oliver Twist. A new pall.... Where did he come from? Greenland. 1849. Thackeray, Pendennis, ch. ix. All these he resigned to lock himself into a lone little country house, with a simple widow and a greenhorn of a son. Greenhouse, subs. (London ’bus-drivers’).—An omnibus. Green Howards, subs. phr. (military).—The Nineteenth Foot. [From its facings and its Colonel’s name (1738–48), and to distinguish it from the Third Foot, also commanded by a Col. Howard.] Also Howard’s Garbage. Green Kingsman, subs. (pugilistic).—A silk pocket-handkerchief: any pattern on a green ground. Green Linnets, subs. phr. (military).—The 39th Foot. [From the facings.] Greenly, adv. (old).—Like a greenhorn; foolishly. 1596. Shakspeare, Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5. King. ... We have done but greenly, In hugger-mugger to inter him. Greenmans, subs. (old).—1. The fields; the country. 1610. Rowlands, Martin Mark all, p. 38 (H. Club’s Rept.) 1874. Greenemans, the fields. 2. in sing. (builders’).—A contractor who speculates with other people’s money. Green-meadow, subs. (venery).—The female pudendum. For synonyms, see Monosyllable. Greenness, subs. (colloquial).—Immaturity of judgment; inexperience; gullibility. 1748. T. Dyche, Dictionary (5th ed.). Greenness (s) ... also the rawness, unskilfulness, or imperfection of any person in a trade, art, science, etc. 1838. Jas. Grant, Sketches in London, ch. vi., p. 205. Instances of such perfect simplicity or greenness, as no one could have previously deemed of possible existence. Green-rag.—See Greeny, sense 1. Green-river. To send a man up green-river, verb. phr. (American).—To kill. [From a once famous factory on Green River, where a favourite hunting-knife was made.] For synonyms, see Cook One’s Goose. 1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 175. A thrust from the keen scalp-knife by the nervous arm of a mountaineer was no baby blow, and seldom failed to strike home up to the green river [i.e., the mark] on the blade. Green-sickness, subs. (old).—Chlorosis. Green-turtle. To live up to green-turtle, verb. phr. (American).—To do, and give, one’s best. [From the high esteem in which the green fat of turtle is held.]