Definition of Tenderfoot

1. Noun. An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living).

Generic synonyms: Beginner, Initiate, Novice, Tiro, Tyro

Definition of Tenderfoot

1. n. A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.

2. n. See Boy scout.

Definition of Tenderfoot

1. Noun. An inexperienced person; a novice ¹

2. Noun. A newcomer to the region in the old U.S. frontier days. ¹

3. Noun. The lowest rank of Boy Scout. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tenderfoot

1. [n -FOOTS or -FEET]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenderfoot

tendentiousnesses
tendenz
tendenzen
tender
tender-hearted
tender lines
tender loving care
tender offer
tender points
tender zones
tendered
tenderer
tenderers
tenderest
tenderfeet
tenderfoot (current term)
tenderfoots
tendergreen
tenderhearted
tenderheartedly
tenderheartedness
tenderheartednesses
tendering
tenderisation
tenderise
tenderised
tenderiser
tenderisers
tenderises
tenderising

Literary usage of Tenderfoot

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"A tenderfoot's lot is a hard one, until he is thoroughly broken in and becomes a ... Mr. tenderfoot climbed on old Bull Hook as he would on a plow horse. ..."

2. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"In the first place the tenderfoot should never take his first desert experience in summer. Let him begin in winter when it is cooler and there is less ..."

3. The Wonders of the Colorado Desert (southern California) Its Rivers and Its by George Wharton James (1906)
"In the first place the tenderfoot should never take his first desert experience in summer. Let him begin in winter when it is cooler and there is less ..."

4. Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp by John Avery Lomax (1919)
"THE DISAPPOINTED tenderfoot HE reached the West in a palace car where the writers tell us the cowboys are, With the redskin bold and the centipede and the ..."

5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Phillipps- Wolley: Trot- tings ofa tenderfoot. Pot on, to put the (trade), to overcharge. (Common), to exaggerate. Pots (sporting), prizes for athletic ..."

6. My People of the Plains by Ethelbert Talbot (1906)
"CHAPTER VIII THE tenderfoot AND OLD PETE DURING my winter visits to the East for the purpose of raising funds for Wyoming and Idaho I frequently met young ..."

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