greenheadn.²

Brit.

/ˈɡriːnhɛd/, U.S.

/ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɛd/

Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and head n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., head n.¹

Etymology: < green adj. + head n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier greenhead n.¹ In sense 2 after Ottoman Turkish yešilbaš, in same sense ( < yešil green + baš head); compare earlier redhead n. 2.

I. Senses relating to people.

1. Frequently in form green head.

a. A raw, inexperienced person; (also) a fool, a simpleton. See head n.¹ 11. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton

innocentc1386

greenhead1576

gonyc1580

ninnyhammer1592

chicken1600

loach1605

simplician1605

hichcock1607

smelt1607

foppasty1611

dovea1616

goslinga1616

funge1621

simplicity1633

gewgaw1634

squab1640

simpletonian1652

ninny-whoop1653

softhead1654

foppotee1663

greenhorn1672

sumph1682

sawney1699

sillyton1708

gaby?1746

gobbin?1746

green goose1768

nin-a-kin1787

Jacob1811

green1824

sillikin1832

greeny1834

softhorn1836

sucker1838

softie1850

dope1851

soft1854

verigreen1854

peanut1864

daftie1872

josser1886

naïf1891

yapc1894

barm-stick1924

knobhead1931

sook1933

nig-nog1953

sawn1953

pronk1959

stiffy1965

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people

greenhead1576

unexperienced1622

green man1635

greenhorn1672

amateur1767

green1824

greeny1834

Hoosier1846

shavetail1846

Boy Scout1918

nig-nog1953

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. ii. f. 99 Greene heades in greatest daunger are.

1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome B ij The author of the Learned Discourse, and 500 green heads more that are on their side.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. 1017 With the checks and taunts of certaine greene heads and busie youths.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Green-head, a very raw Novice or inexperienc'd Fellow.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 311 Hadst thou been a born Fool, or a raw Greenhead, or a doating Greyhead.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 243 Some green heads as void of wit as thought.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii^*. Methinks there is use for the grey hairs on the old scalp, were it but to instruct the green head by precept and by example.

1893 L. Wagner More about Names 145 A ship's crew is made up of three classes, viz., Able Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, and Greenheads or Boys.

1999 A. Mallinson Close Run Thing (2000) i. 21 I'm not a greenhead. For heaven's sake, Serjeant Armstrong, let's get these guns spiked and then back to our post before worse arrives.

†b. A young, immature, or untrained intellect. See head n.¹ 2a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person > immaturity of young person

greenness?c1425

unripenessa1500

greenhead1588

coltishnessa1657

callowness1817

cubbishness1828

vealiness1895

preppiness1977

1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. C2 Euerie yoong boy will take vppon him to teache the ancient, and to reproue them, for that their greene heads thinke that to bee true.

1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 175 To whom..in the conceits of their grene heads, they wil not obey.

1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 43 Men of greene heads, of crude and lanke abilities.

1671 C. Trenchfield (title) A cap of gray hairs, for a green head. Or, the father's counsel to his son, an apprentice in London.

1765 Public Advertiser 14 Aug. This Correspondent of your's, with his Blue-beard, has got but a green Head, which that Time may ripen I heartily wish.

1857 H. M. G. Smythies Married for Love i. 3 Young men with very green heads..who would have applauded Hildebrand Montresor had he made Jane Meeke his mistress.

†2. A person entitled to wear a green turban as a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. Obsolete.The custom is said to have been introduced in an edict by the Pasha of Egypt, al-Saiyid Muhammad al-Sharif, in 1596, although the wearing of a distinguishing green badge on the turban is thought to date back to 1371–2.

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society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > founder > descendant of

greenhead1585

shereef1599

Fatimite1728

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xx. f. 108 Such as do say themselues to be sprong of the kinred of Mahomet, to weare a greene Tulbant, and therefore are called Iessilbas, wich is to say greene heads.

1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 83 There was a Sherife or a Green-head in Aleppo, whom they account Mahomets kin[d]red.

1625 J. Sanderson in S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. ix. 1623 The cadie of Tripoly being a Green-head that is one of the Parentage of Mahomet.

a1734 R. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North (1744) 45 Once a green-head Turk, (One of Mahomet's Kindred so distinguished) made him a Proposition.

1768 J. Porter Observ. Turks I. x. 106 In any cause..in which an Emir, or Green-head, is concerned, their proper court is that of the Nakib of Sancta Sophia.

a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iii. 64 This was a rebellion of the green heads, or descendants of Mahomet.

1853 C. MacFarlane Kismet iii. 406 They regard with scorn..the claims of the Emirs, or green-heads, to be entitled to reverence as the descendants of the Prophet.

II. Senses relating to animals.

3. Chiefly U.S. Any of several green-eyed horseflies of the family Tabanidae; esp. Tabanus nigrovittatus of the eastern United States.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of

greenhead1837

tabanid1891

1837 A. Wetmore et al. Gazetteer Missouri 65 In the early settlement of the country, the value of the prairies was under~rated by a knowledge of the mischievous power vested in the greenheads, or prairie fly.

1888 J. Kirkland McVeys 18 What can be the matter with that horse?.. Is he crazy? Pretty near, I guess, with a greenhead on him somewhere where he can't get at it.

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 113 He twitched like a steer which green-heads were biting.

1985 R. Keiper Assateague Ponies iv. 33 These biting flies, three varieties of greenheads, deer flies, and stable flies, reach their greatest population density on the island in July and August.

2005 Real Simple June 162/2 Greenheads, horseflies, and blackflies are all members of the Diptera, or fly, order.

4. North American. A duck with a green head; esp. a mallard, Anas platyrhynchos (also greenhead mallard).

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the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas platyrhynchos (mallard)

mallardc1330

stock drake1772

stock duck1805

greenhead1838

1838 J. P. Kirtland in 2nd Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio 186 This beautiful species is the stock from whence was derived our domesticated variety of ducks. It is known as the mallard or green-head.

1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 55 Crisfield duckers frequently..distinguish the greater scaup as green-head.

1918 Outing July 234/1 Chief among the hordes of wild ducks that received the state's hospitality are the greenhead mallards.

1977 A. Russell Adventures with Wild Animals 82 Behind them and considerably lower came a flock of greenhead mallards heading the same way.

2006 Our Canada June 19 A cacophony of waterfowl arrive from their northern migration..—mergansers,..greenheads, Canada geese, and snow geese.

5. Australian. The common ant Rhytidoponera metallica (formerly Ectatomma metallicum), which is dark with a metallic green sheen and a painful sting. More fully greenhead ant.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Ectatomma (greenhead)

greenhead1879

kelep1904

1879 Queenslander 20 Sept. 365/2 You..find you have pitched your bed on or near a nest of ‘green-heads’ or soldier ants.

1907 W. W. Froggatt Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 93 The ‘Green~head’, Ectatomma metallicum, is a common ant of medium size that lives in small communities under stones or logs.

1970 E. F. Riek in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxxvii. 910/2 One specimen is recorded from the nest of Ectatomma metallicum, the green~head ant.

2009 Australian (Nexis) 21 Jan. 31 Adult Australian green-head ants were offered sucrose solutions of strengths ranging from weak to strong.

6. U.S. The striped bass, Morone saxatilis (family Moronidae), esp. a large specimen viewed as a game fish.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Roccus

rockfish1605

squid-hound1794

striped bass1818

sand perch1878

greenhead1884

striper1945

1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 425 The Striped Bass... Large sea-going individuals are sometimes known in New England by the names of ‘Green-head’ and ‘Squid-hound’.

1909 Outing Nov. 203/2 It has been known as the streaked bass and green-head.

1978 A. J. McClane McClane's Field Guide Saltwater Fishes N. Amer. 110 As a rule the striped bass is dark olive-green (hence the name greenhead) to steel-blue or almost black.

2008 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 26 Jan. p16 Johnny moved on to another favorite spot which usually proves to be a good spot for sea bass and limited out on large greenheads in no time.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	greenhead
释义	† greenheadn.¹ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and -head suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: green adj., -head suffix. Etymology: < green adj. + -head suffix.Earlier currency is perhaps reflected by the surname Alan Grenhed (1246), although compare also later greenhead n.² 1a; alternatively, the surname may derive from a place name (compare le Greneheued, Northumberland (1289; now Greenhead). J. Jönsjö ( Stud. Middle Eng. Nicknames (1979) 104) regards the form as a scribal error for the well-attested Middle English surname Grenhod, lit. ‘green hood’. Obsolete. Greenness. Also figurative: immaturity (see green adj. 8). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > green or greenness > [noun] greennessOE green?c1225 greenheada1325 greenshipc1390 verdurec1400 viridityc1430 sinople1489 flourish1594 deep green1601 verdour1610 verdancy1631 verdue1641 zinnober green1879 vernality1896 virescence1904 verd1915 a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Cambr.) (1929) 1007 Pur la verdour [glossed] grenhed des asceles, Jeo ne vei issir estenceles. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 94 Þe holy writ comparisoneþ þe zaule and of þe guode manne an of þe guode wyfmanne to ane uayre gardyne uol of grenhede. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 65 In hire is heigh beautee, with oute pryde Youthe, with outen grenehede or folye. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 210 Grenehed or grenenesse, viriditas, viror. a1500 in J. Evans & M. S. Serjeantson Eng. Mediaeval Lapidaries (1933) 85 (MED) Esmeraude is a ston þat ouerpasseþ al þe grennesse of grenhede. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). greenheadn.² Brit. /ˈɡriːnhɛd/, U.S. /ˈɡrinˌ(h)ɛd/ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and head n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., head n.¹ Etymology: < green adj. + head n.¹ With sense 1 compare earlier greenhead n.¹ In sense 2 after Ottoman Turkish yešilbaš, in same sense ( < yešil green + baš head); compare earlier redhead n. 2. I. Senses relating to people. 1. Frequently in form green head. a. A raw, inexperienced person; (also) a fool, a simpleton. See head n.¹ 11. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > person of weak intellect > [noun] > simpleton innocentc1386 greenhead1576 gonyc1580 ninnyhammer1592 chicken1600 loach1605 simplician1605 hichcock1607 smelt1607 foppasty1611 dovea1616 goslinga1616 funge1621 simplicity1633 gewgaw1634 squab1640 simpletonian1652 ninny-whoop1653 softhead1654 foppotee1663 greenhorn1672 sumph1682 sawney1699 sillyton1708 gaby?1746 gobbin?1746 green goose1768 nin-a-kin1787 Jacob1811 green1824 sillikin1832 greeny1834 softhorn1836 sucker1838 softie1850 dope1851 soft1854 verigreen1854 peanut1864 daftie1872 josser1886 naïf1891 yapc1894 barm-stick1924 knobhead1931 sook1933 nig-nog1953 sawn1953 pronk1959 stiffy1965 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > inexperience > inexperienced person or people greenhead1576 unexperienced1622 green man1635 greenhorn1672 amateur1767 green1824 greeny1834 Hoosier1846 shavetail1846 Boy Scout1918 nig-nog1953 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. ii. f. 99 Greene heades in greatest daunger are. 1589 ‘M. Marprelate’ Epitome B ij The author of the Learned Discourse, and 500 green heads more that are on their side. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxviii. 1017 With the checks and taunts of certaine greene heads and busie youths. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Green-head, a very raw Novice or inexperienc'd Fellow. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 311 Hadst thou been a born Fool, or a raw Greenhead, or a doating Greyhead. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 243 Some green heads as void of wit as thought. 1820 W. Scott Monastery II. iii^. Methinks there is use for the grey hairs on the old scalp, were it but to instruct the green head by precept and by example. 1893 L. Wagner More about Names* 145 A ship's crew is made up of three classes, viz., Able Seamen, Ordinary Seamen, and Greenheads or Boys. 1999 A. Mallinson Close Run Thing (2000) i. 21 I'm not a greenhead. For heaven's sake, Serjeant Armstrong, let's get these guns spiked and then back to our post before worse arrives. †b. A young, immature, or untrained intellect. See head n.¹ 2a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [noun] > young and inexperienced person > immaturity of young person greenness?c1425 unripenessa1500 greenhead1588 coltishnessa1657 callowness1817 cubbishness1828 vealiness1895 preppiness1977 1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. C2 Euerie yoong boy will take vppon him to teache the ancient, and to reproue them, for that their greene heads thinke that to bee true. 1591 R. Turnbull Expos. Epist. St. Iames f. 175 To whom..in the conceits of their grene heads, they wil not obey. 1638 E. Reynolds Serm. Peace Church 43 Men of greene heads, of crude and lanke abilities. 1671 C. Trenchfield (title) A cap of gray hairs, for a green head. Or, the father's counsel to his son, an apprentice in London. 1765 Public Advertiser 14 Aug. This Correspondent of your's, with his Blue-beard, has got but a green Head, which that Time may ripen I heartily wish. 1857 H. M. G. Smythies Married for Love i. 3 Young men with very green heads..who would have applauded Hildebrand Montresor had he made Jane Meeke his mistress. †2. A person entitled to wear a green turban as a descendant of the prophet Muhammad. Obsolete.The custom is said to have been introduced in an edict by the Pasha of Egypt, al-Saiyid Muhammad al-Sharif, in 1596, although the wearing of a distinguishing green badge on the turban is thought to date back to 1371–2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Islam > [noun] > founder > descendant of greenhead1585 shereef1599 Fatimite1728 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xx. f. 108 Such as do say themselues to be sprong of the kinred of Mahomet, to weare a greene Tulbant, and therefore are called Iessilbas, wich is to say greene heads. 1609 W. Biddulph Trauels Certaine Englishmen 83 There was a Sherife or a Green-head in Aleppo, whom they account Mahomets kin[d]red. 1625 J. Sanderson in S. Purchas Pilgrimes ii. ix. 1623 The cadie of Tripoly being a Green-head that is one of the Parentage of Mahomet. a1734 R. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North (1744) 45 Once a green-head Turk, (One of Mahomet's Kindred so distinguished) made him a Proposition. 1768 J. Porter Observ. Turks I. x. 106 In any cause..in which an Emir, or Green-head, is concerned, their proper court is that of the Nakib of Sancta Sophia. a1785 A. Parsons Trav. (1808) iii. 64 This was a rebellion of the green heads, or descendants of Mahomet. 1853 C. MacFarlane Kismet iii. 406 They regard with scorn..the claims of the Emirs, or green-heads, to be entitled to reverence as the descendants of the Prophet. II. Senses relating to animals. 3. Chiefly U.S. Any of several green-eyed horseflies of the family Tabanidae; esp. Tabanus nigrovittatus of the eastern United States. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Brachycera > family Tabanidae > member of greenhead1837 tabanid1891 1837 A. Wetmore et al. Gazetteer Missouri 65 In the early settlement of the country, the value of the prairies was under~rated by a knowledge of the mischievous power vested in the greenheads, or prairie fly. 1888 J. Kirkland McVeys 18 What can be the matter with that horse?.. Is he crazy? Pretty near, I guess, with a greenhead on him somewhere where he can't get at it. 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) v. 113 He twitched like a steer which green-heads were biting. 1985 R. Keiper Assateague Ponies iv. 33 These biting flies, three varieties of greenheads, deer flies, and stable flies, reach their greatest population density on the island in July and August. 2005 Real Simple June 162/2 Greenheads, horseflies, and blackflies are all members of the Diptera, or fly, order. 4. North American. A duck with a green head; esp. a mallard, Anas platyrhynchos (also greenhead mallard). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > member of genus Anas (miscellaneous) > anas platyrhynchos (mallard) mallardc1330 stock drake1772 stock duck1805 greenhead1838 1838 J. P. Kirtland in 2nd Ann. Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio 186 This beautiful species is the stock from whence was derived our domesticated variety of ducks. It is known as the mallard or green-head. 1888 G. Trumbull Names & Portraits Birds 55 Crisfield duckers frequently..distinguish the greater scaup as green-head. 1918 Outing July 234/1 Chief among the hordes of wild ducks that received the state's hospitality are the greenhead mallards. 1977 A. Russell Adventures with Wild Animals 82 Behind them and considerably lower came a flock of greenhead mallards heading the same way. 2006 Our Canada June 19 A cacophony of waterfowl arrive from their northern migration..—mergansers,..greenheads, Canada geese, and snow geese. 5. Australian. The common ant Rhytidoponera metallica (formerly Ectatomma metallicum), which is dark with a metallic green sheen and a painful sting. More fully greenhead ant. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > ant > member of genus Ectatomma (greenhead) greenhead1879 kelep1904 1879 Queenslander 20 Sept. 365/2 You..find you have pitched your bed on or near a nest of ‘green-heads’ or soldier ants. 1907 W. W. Froggatt Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) 93 The ‘Green~head’, Ectatomma metallicum, is a common ant of medium size that lives in small communities under stones or logs. 1970 E. F. Riek in Insects of Austral. (Commonwealth Sci. & Industr. Res. Organization, Austral.) xxxvii. 910/2 One specimen is recorded from the nest of Ectatomma metallicum, the green~head ant. 2009 Australian (Nexis) 21 Jan. 31 Adult Australian green-head ants were offered sucrose solutions of strengths ranging from weak to strong. 6. U.S. The striped bass, Morone saxatilis (family Moronidae), esp. a large specimen viewed as a game fish. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Roccus rockfish1605 squid-hound1794 striped bass1818 sand perch1878 greenhead1884 striper1945 1884 G. B. Goode Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim. 425 The Striped Bass... Large sea-going individuals are sometimes known in New England by the names of ‘Green-head’ and ‘Squid-hound’. 1909 Outing Nov. 203/2 It has been known as the streaked bass and green-head. 1978 A. J. McClane McClane's Field Guide Saltwater Fishes N. Amer. 110 As a rule the striped bass is dark olive-green (hence the name greenhead) to steel-blue or almost black. 2008 Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville) (Nexis) 26 Jan. p16 Johnny moved on to another favorite spot which usually proves to be a good spot for sea bass and limited out on large greenheads in no time. 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