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tenderfoot
CIDE DICTIONARY
tenderfoot, n.
- 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, upstartROGET 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.For further exploring for "tenderfoot" in Webster Dictionary Online