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TENDERFOOT (tenderfeet)
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tenderfoot mean?
• TENDERFOOT (noun)
The noun TENDERFOOT has 1 sense:
1. an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)
Familiarity information: TENDERFOOT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("tenderfoot" is a kind of...):
beginner; initiate; novice; tiro; tyro (someone new to a field or activity)
Context examples
At Dawson comes the man. Which way he come I do not know. Only do I know he is checha-quo—what you call tenderfoot.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“Black” Burton, a man evil-tempered and malicious, had been picking a quarrel with a tenderfoot at the bar, when Thornton stepped good-naturedly between.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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