Usually means: Newcomer with little experience, novice.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. tenderfoot: Merriam-Webster
  2. tenderfoot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tenderfoot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tenderfoot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tenderfoot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tenderfoot, tenderfoot: Wordnik
  7. tenderfoot: Wiktionary
  8. tenderfoot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tenderfoot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tenderfoot: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tenderfoot: Dictionary.com
  12. tenderfoot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Tenderfoot, The Tenderfoot (TV film), The Tenderfoot (band), The Tenderfoot (film), The Tenderfoot (miniseries): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Tenderfoot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tenderfoot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tenderfoot: Rhymezone
  17. Tenderfoot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tenderfoot: FreeDictionary.org
  19. tenderfoot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. tenderfoot: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenderfoot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenderfoot: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tenderfoot: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (chiefly Canada, US) An inexperienced person; a novice.
▸ noun:  (historical) A newcomer or arriviste to the region in the American frontier (Old West and Wild West).
▸ noun:  (dated) A Boy Scout of the lowest rank.

Similar:
freshling, greenhorn, rookie, freshman, apprentice, colt, baby, newbie, greenie, nozzer, more...

Opposite:
seasoned, experienced, veteran

Types:
novice, rookie, greenhorn, newbie, fledgling, pioneer, trailblazer, more...

Adjectives:
young, eastern, eyed, such, little, ordinary, veriest, real, common, average, english
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Similar:
freshling, greenhorn, rookie, freshman, apprentice, colt, baby, newbie, greenie, nozzer, more...

Opposite:
seasoned, experienced, veteran

Types:
novice, rookie, greenhorn, newbie, fledgling, pioneer, trailblazer, more...

Adjectives:
young, eastern, eyed, such, little, ordinary, veriest, real, common, average, english



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