tenderfoot

4 definitions found

tenderfoot - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.]

  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.]

tenderfoot - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tenderfoot
      n 1: an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced
           in outdoor living)

tenderfoot - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenderfoot":
     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