Do we say greenhorn or tinhorn

greenhorn 58 occurrences

He knew the man took him for a greenhorn, but then the man himself was a Jerseyman.

It is no shame to be a greenhorn to a Jerseyman.

With such a prop as this ere little territory, where games of chance are "entered into accordin' to the act of Congress," to cote from a familiar passage in every printed copy of PUNCHINELLO, the Perfesser could have raised this little hemisfeer quicker than any of you chaps can gobble up a greenhorn.

They were of every conceivable shape and shapelessness, most of them flattened; some of them, the greenhorn would swear, were fashioned by man into roughly embossed hearts, or shells, or polished discs like rude, defaced coins.

If you are lookin' for a greenhorn, I'me your man.

" King of Corpus (who was an incorrigible wag) was about to point out a half dozen of people in the room, as the most celebrated wits of that day; but I cut King's shins under the table, and got the fellow to hold his tongue, while Jones wrote on his card to Hoskins, hinted to him that a boy was in the room, and a gentleman who was quite a greenhorn: hence that the songs had better be carefully selected.

A greenhorn might have lost the track many times, and made a none.

With the greenhorn the automobile is long-suffering.

Every Spaniard that spoke to him, whether clerkling or underling, was presented as a leading merchant, a marquis, or a count, while on the other hand any one who passed him by was a greenhorn, a petty official, a nobody!

A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the world, if he imagines that he can make himself popular in society by exhibiting intelligence and discernment.

And I wouldn't keep him trottin' about like a little pet dog till I got tired of him and give him up for the sake of a greenhorn who"her voice lowered to a spiteful hiss"kissed you the first time he even seen you!"

Yep, a greenhorn.

"'Oh,' says the greenhorn, nodding as if he was thinkin' this over and discovering a little truth in it.

He hefted out both guns and trained 'em on the greenhorn.

" [Illustration: A Hopeless Case] THE GREENHORN A lettuce walking out one day, Lost his head, so lost his way; A Pumpkin happened on the scene, And said it came from being green.

[Illustration: The Greenhorn] OLD MR.

Poor little greenhorn.' "She asked me what I was going to do, and I said work, so I could stay there and go to the opera and see beautiful things.

When I was a greenhorn and young, And wanted to be and to do, I puzzled my brains about choosing my line, Till I found out the way that things go.

Who but a fool or a silly greenhorn lets slip the chances of enjoyment, and loses opportunities of experiences?

SUBLETTE, C. M. Greenhorn's hunt.

SUBLETTE, MARY S. Greenhorn's hunt.

"Of course you must understand that I was a greenhorn at diving.

The night after he came they put him on guard dutya greenhorn, with no knowledge of any orders but gee and haw.

I made a mistake, but I've got to stand by it or be called a greenhorn.

He merely retied the luggage with a packer's hitch that would take the greenhorn through his whole vocabulary before he untied it that night, and he would add two bits to the price of the gas because his time belonged to Bill, and Bill expected Casey's time to be paid for by the public.

tinhorn 8 occurrences

The dead game tinhorn.

Tinhorn outlaw.

No town for a tinhorn, by Ross Rocklynne, pseud.

Tinhorn Rep. By Walt Coburn.

The dead game tinhorn.

Tinhorn outlaw.

No town for a tinhorn, by Ross Rocklynne, pseud.

Tinhorn Rep. By Walt Coburn.

Do we say   greenhorn   or  tinhorn