'Tenderfoot' definitions:
Definition of 'tenderfoot'
From: WordNet
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'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abecedarian,
- alphabetarian,
- apprentice,
- arriviste,
- articled clerk,
- baby,
- beginner,
- boot,
- catechumen,
- colt,
- conscript,
- dabbler,
- deb,
- debutant,
- dilettante,
- draft,
- drafted man,
- draftee,
- dunce,
- emigrant,
- enlistee,
- enrollee,
- entrant,
- fledgling,
- fool,
- freshman,
- gate-crasher,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- immigrant,
- inductee,
- infant,
- initiate,
- intruder,
- know-nothing,
- learner,
- levy,
- lowbrow,
- middlebrow,
- neophyte,
- nestling,
- new arrival,
- new boy,
- newcomer,
- no scholar,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- novus homo,
- parvenu,
- postulant,
- probationer,
- probationist,
- puddinghead,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- rookie,
- selectee,
- settler,
- squatter,
- stowaway,
- trainee,
- tyro,
- unintelligentsia,
- upstart