greenhornish

English

Etymology

From greenhorn +‎ -ish.

Adjective

greenhornish (comparative more greenhornish, superlative most greenhornish)

1. Like a greenhorn; lacking experience; naive.
   • 2007, Erica Jong, Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters, page 24:

     I was sent, of course, to a relative, a huge woman with a crooked wig and many chins with as many wens, who called herself my aunt Chaya and would only ever call me greenhornish Soora.