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n. - An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living).

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Usage examples (35)
  • It rankled to be called tenderfoot by a slender chit of a woman.
  • "The first day a tenderfoot is our guest," replied Mollie Long, laughing.
  • This was the second time today he'd been called a tenderfoot, and he didn't like it.
  • The redeeming point of the tenderfoot is his humbleness of spirit and his extreme good nature.
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