grass-head

[Yaduta Vladimir]

Dear SEELANGers, 

While working on the problem of the Don Cossack dialect translation into English I came across a quite peculiar occurence, attending to the "Virgin Soil upturned" by M.A. Sholokhov. 
There exists a Cossack word - кужонок / kuzhonok  - a reference to куга зеленая - which is 'about a young, inexperienced man'. It is translated as a grass-head. The context is:
  - You're too young to teach me, grass-head! I was was a member of the party ... before you'd got your belly button dry...
(- Ты, куженок, молодой меня учить и заметки  мне  делать!  У  тебя  ишо пупок не просох...)
I failed to find this word in a dictionary (grass-head). The only meaning happened to come up - 'a person who smokes marihuana' (Am. slang). But this makes no sense. Perhaps, there are some other meanings of the fabulous "grass-head"?

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Sincerely,
  Vladimir Yaduta

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