Found 2 items, similar to tenderfoot.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: tenderfoot
tenderfoot
n : an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in
outdoor living)
[also:
tenderfeet (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: tenderfoot
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.]