4 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: tenderfoot n : an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living) [also: {tenderfeet} (pl)] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 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
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