tenderfoot
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
tenderfoot
n 1: an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced
in outdoor living)
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Boy scout \Boy scout\
Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys
founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote
good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty
and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in
wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities,
etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar
organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of
America" the local councils are generally under a scout
commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each
in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts
each, who are of three classes, {tenderfoot}, {second-class
scout}, and {first-class scout}.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "tenderfoot":
abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk,
baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, dabbler, deb,
debutant, dilettante, draft, drafted man, draftee, dunce, emigrant,
enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, fool, freshman,
gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati,
immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, know-nothing,
learner, levy, lowbrow, middlebrow, neophyte, nestling,
new arrival, new boy, newcomer, no scholar, novice, novitiate,
novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist,
puddinghead, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, selectee, settler,
squatter, stowaway, trainee, tyro, unintelligentsia, upstart
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