'Tenderfoot' definitions:

Definition of 'tenderfoot'

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noun
An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)

Definition of 'Tenderfoot'

From: GCIDE
  • Tenderfoot \Ten"der*foot`\, n.
  • 1. A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U. S.] [1913 Webster]
  • 2. See Boy scout. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'tenderfoot'

From: GCIDE
  • 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 their interest in wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities, etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of America" the local councils are generally under a scout commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, {second-class scout}, and first-class scout. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Synonyms of 'tenderfoot'

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