wet behind the ears

Betekenis (Engels)

Inexperienced; just beginning; immature (especially in judgment).

Concepten

onervaren

nat achter de oren

Tegenovergesteld aan

dry behind the ears

Synoniemen

green

immature

inexperienced

innocent

😇

naive

unfledged

unsophisticated

verdant

smelling of milk

unweaned

gormless

to be half-baked

Vertalingen

inexpert

unerfahren

nach Milch reichend

grün hinter den Ohren

feucht hinter den Ohren

inexpérimenté

sans expérience

alle prime armi

inesperto

sprovveduto

muovere i primi passi

inesperte

essere un novellino

inexperto

Etymologie (Engels)

First use appears c. 1850 in Pennsylvania, a calque of German feucht hinter den Ohren. From the drying of amniotic fluid of a baby after birth, specifically a newborn farm animal, whose ears are the last to dry, partly because it is licked dry by its mother everywhere else. Alternative forms also derive from German.