greenhorn /ˈɡɹiːnˌhɔːɹn/ noun2 •An inexperienced person; a novice, beginner, or newcomer.Bije scorned the man who had hired him, this Francis Mason from Philadelphia, but he admitted that the greenhorn had courage and determination. — 1950 •(offensive) A Portuguese person.She lives in New Bedford, and her dad's not around much and her mum calls her boyfriend a Portagee, a fuckin' greenhorn, — 1993 formsgreenhorns