Wet-behind-the-ears Definition
adjective
Alternative spelling of wet behind the ears.
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Origin of Wet-behind-the-ears
From the drying of amniotic fluid on a baby after birth, specifically a new-born farm animal, which last dries behind the ears (partly because licked dry by mother everywhere else). German variants (still wet behind the ears, not yet dry behind the ears, green behind the ears) also borrowed.
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c. 1850, Pennsylvania, calque from German feucht hinter den Ohren.
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