GREENER

Date "GREENER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Literature

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Crosswords: GREENER

A bird in the hand is always greener than the grass under the other guy's bushes (North; writing credit: Alan Zweibel)

He's a guy who followed his pecker to greener pastures (Legally Blonde; writing credit: Karen McCullah Lutz)

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else's lake (The Little Mermaid; writing credit: Roger Allers; Hans Christian Andersen)

I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side (Affirmation; performing artist: Savage Garden)

Youth is when we are always hunting greener pastures, and middle age is when we can barely mow the one we've got. (references; author: unknown)

The Grass Is Greener (1960)

So You Think the Grass Is Greener (1956)

The Greener Yard (1949)

Greener (2003)

Always Greener (2001)

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Books

• Design Plus Environment: A Global Guide to Designing Greener Goods (reference)

• Greener Pastures: How to Find a Job in Another Place (reference)

• Lean Down Your Ear upon the Earth, and Listen: Thomas Wolfe's Greener Modernism (reference)

• Making the Grass Greener on Your Side: A Ceo's Journey to Leading by Serving (reference)

• Please Tell Me If The Grass Is Greener (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• The Grass Is Greener (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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The grass is often greener -- and taller -- on the other side of a fence used as part of a rotational-grazing system. Credit: Charlie Rahm.

The desert turns a greener shade by the Agua Fria River. Credit: Beth Perault.

Trees and mountains in a greener part of Arizona, the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument. Credit: Bette Ariel.

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Clackamas County, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Burkina Faso

July-September, the rains bring a 3-month cooler and greener humid season. (references)

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Expression using "GREENER": seek greener pastures. Additional references.

Beginning with "GREENER": greener-minded, greener-than-green, greener-than-thou.

Ending with "GREENER": sea-greener.

Albanian

leshko (coot, dodo, dupe, gander, goon, goose, greenhorn, gudgeon, gullibility, gullible, innocent, loon, lummox, mooncalf, muggins, mutt, nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, noddy, noodle, numskull, sap, sap-head, Sawney, simp, simpleton, tom-noddy), i papërvojë (callow, half-baked, inexperienced, raw, sucking, unexperienced, unpractical, unpractised, unschooled, unskilled, unsophisticated, unversed). (various references)

Bulgarian 

новодошъл емигрант, новак (acolyte, apprentice, catechumen, cub, fresher, freshman, infant, mug, neophyte, novice, tiro, tyro, youngster). (various references)

Chinese 

比较绿色. (various references)

Czech

zelenáè (apprentice, cub, fledgeling, fledgling, milksop, rookie, sucker). (various references)

German

grüner (herbaceous). (various references)

Hungarian

újonc (apprentice, boot, conscript, conscriptee, dog-face, draftee, freshman, freshmen, inductee, neophyte, new comer, novice, noviciate, recruit, rookie, rooky, tenderfoot, tiro, trainee, tyro). (various references)

Italian

più verde. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

となりの芝生は青い (also called, certainly, construction worker, last, of course, rather, scaffold erector, the grass is always greener on the other side, to be sure, totteringly, trudgingly, where ... is concerned). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

となりのしばふはあおい (the grass is always greener on the other side). (various references)

Korean 

녹색 (Green, Greenest, greenish, greens). (various references)

Pig Latin

eenergray.(various references)

Portuguese

novi�o, novato (beginner, colt, fox, fresher, freshman, green, greenhorn, initiate, intrant, new, novice, stranger, sucking, tiro), indiv�duo inexperiente (greenhorn, griffin). (various references)

Russian 

новичок (apprentice, aprentice, beginner, catechumen, colt, cub, first-timer, fresher, green hand, greenhorn, mug, newcom, newcomer, new-comer, novice, recruit, rookie, tenderfeet, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro), простак (boob, coot, gaby, goose, gull, innocent, juggins, lummox, man of Gotham, mug, muggins, noddy, noodle, patsy, sap, simp, simpleton, tomnoddy, wise man of Gotham). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naivčina (sucker). (various references)

Spanish

verder. (various references)

Turkish

daha iyi koşullar aramak (seek greener pastures). (various references)

Ukrainian

новачок (apprentice, cub, fresher, freshman, new-come, rabbit, rookie, tenderfoot, tiro, tyro, undergraduate, youngling), простак (gaby, gawky, innocent, josser, juggins, lummox, muggins, ninny, ninny-hammer, noddy, pigeon, prune, simp, simple, simpleton, softy). (various references)

Aphis, Cerosipha, Doralina, Doralis, Medoralis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "GREENER": greeneries, greenery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"GREENER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Geremew, Gergesene, Goerner, Graebner, Grasemere, Graupner, Gravener, Greaney, greeen, greeke, Greena, Greenen, greenes, greeno, greenore, grenner, Gretener, Grieger, Groener, Gyrene, preener. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: regreen, reneger.

-1 letter: renege.

-2 letters: genre, green.

-3 letters: eger, erne, gene, gree.

-4 letters: eng, ere, erg, ern, err, gee, gen, nee, ree, reg.

-5 letters: en, er, ne, re.

+1 letter: greenery, greenier, regreens, renegers, revenger.

+2 letters: energizer, evergreen, peregrine, reengrave, regreened, revengers.

+3 letters: energizers, enregister, evergreens, greenbrier, greeneries, greenheart, interreges, interrogee, peregrines, rebreeding, reemerging, reenergize, reengineer, reengraved, reengraves, reentering, reerecting, refereeing, refreezing, regeneracy, regenerate, regreening, regreeting, resurgence.

+4 letters: demergering, enregisters, gendarmerie, generalizer, greenbacker, greenbriers, greengrocer, greenhearts, greenkeeper, greenmailer, interrogees, peregrinate, persevering, preemergent, preerecting, prefreezing, reemergence, reenergized, reenergizes, reengineers, referencing, regenerable, regenerated, regenerates, regenerator, reintegrate, relettering, remembering, rereleasing, rerepeating, rereviewing, rescreening, resurgences, retempering, reverencing, wintergreen.