tenderfoot
noun
a raw, inexperienced person; novice.
tenderfeet
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pluralof tenderfoot.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Once in the woods, teachers fell back, leaving tenderfeet to find their way together.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
But there’s an advantage to being a freshman in a big class like this one — as tenderfeet, they’re not bound by deals and pacts made in previous sessions.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011
Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Robert Bartlett, last week, "tenderfeet, enthusiastic as hell . . . college trained men . . . with their background and enthusiasm they would know what to do when we got there."
From Time Magazine Archive
They had discovered that the Pony Rider Boys were not the band of tenderfeet that they had at first taken them for.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin
