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tender loving care | tender offer | tender spot | tender-hearted | tender-hefted | tenderfoot | tendergreen | tenderhearted | tenderheartedness | tenderisation | tenderise

tenderfoot

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Noun
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ten=der=foot

CIDE DICTIONARY

tenderfootn. 
  •  A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life.  [1913 Webster]
  •  See Boy scout.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tenderfoot, n. a newcomer or novice, esp. in the bush or in the Scouts or Guides.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

tenderfoot

Extraneousness

N extraneousness, extrinsicality, exteriority, alienage, alienism, foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element, alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant, creole, Africander, outsider, Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot, extraneous, foreign, alien, ulterior, tramontane, ultramontane, excluded, inadmissible, exceptional, in foreign parts, in foreign lands, abroad, beyond seas, over sea on one's travels.


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