Associations to the word «Tenderfoot»

Wiktionary

TENDERFOOT, noun. An inexperienced person; a novice
TENDERFOOT, noun. A newcomer to the region in the old U.S. frontier days.
TENDERFOOT, noun. A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.

Dictionary definition

TENDERFOOT, noun. An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living).

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne