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tenderfoot
noun 3
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3VERB + TENDERFOOT
tells
PREP.
with
ADV.
only
Definitions
noun
1
An inexperienced person; a novice.
2
A newcomer or arriviste to the region in the American frontier (Old West and Wild West).
Watson had risen so hurriedly that he had not been careful about his “tarp” and water had run into his bed. But that wouldn’t disconcert anybody but a tenderfoot.
"Lavender Cowboy," a pseudo folk song, is a tale of futility. It tells of a tenderfoot "with only two hairs on his chest," whose heroic attempt to prove his manhood results in his death.
3
A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.
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Watson had risen so hurriedly that he had not been careful about his “tarp” and water had run into his bed. But that wouldn’t disconcert anybody but a tenderfoot.
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"Lavender Cowboy," a pseudo folk song, is a tale of futility. It tells of a tenderfoot "with only two hairs on his chest," whose heroic attempt to prove his manhood results in his death.
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