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tenderfoot
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) [also: tenderfeet (pl)]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tenderfoot or The Tenderfoot may refer to: One of the ranks in the Boy Scouts of America A guest at a guest ranch , also known as a "dude" "Tenderfoot", a song by Adam Young and Tom Morgan The Tenderfoot (play) , a 1904 play The Tenderfoot (1917 film) , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boy scout \Boy scout\ Orig., a member of the ``Boy Scouts,'' an organization of boys founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty and of usefulness to others, by stimulating ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1866, American English, originally of newcomers to ranching or mining districts, from tender (adj.) + foot (n.). The U.S. equivalent of what in Great Britain was generally called a greenhand . As a level in Boy Scouting, it is recorded from 1908.\n\nAmong ...
Usage examples of tenderfoot.
Woodbury Common during their Tenderfoot exercise, claimed to have crawled around their bivvy bags and joked that he was now going to be a mercenary in Bosnia.
He covered the twenty yards across our drive in a tenderfooted stumble, Killer gaining with every leap.
As long as the boom continues, and foreigners and tenderfeet pour their money in, the business will look prosperous.
It was usual for any tenderfoot on a cow ranch or a cattle drive to be given a bad horse just as a joke.
Most of the tall tales about grizzlies have been spun around camp fires to impress a tenderfoot or tourist and even more have been poured out of a bottle of rye whisky.
It was a perfect place for a settlement, as I p'inted out, but tenderfoots is powerful pecooliar.
I stayed longer'n I intended to, it was sech a relief to get away from them helpless tenderfoots for a while, and when I rode back into camp, I seen Ned approaching with a stranger—a young white man, which carried hisself with a air of great importance.
I'm not citified like some of these tenderfoots who haul produce from door to door out in the suburbs.