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Definition of Tenderfeet
1. tenderfoot [n] - See also: tenderfoot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tenderfeet
Literary usage of Tenderfeet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay by Charles Kenneth Leith, Arthur T. Leith (1912)
"At first we rather resented being treated like tenderfeet, but after ... For ithat
matter, we were regarded as tenderfeet from the moment we struck the Bay ..."
2. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"A Building that is Never Closed — Police-Station Lodgings — Cutting his Buttons
off — A Dramatic Scene — Teaching the tenderfeet — The Duties of a Policeman ..."
3. A Tenderfoot with Peary by George Borup (1911)
"... THE tenderfeet A HEAVY wind from the south, on the 4th 2\ of September, drove
the pack northward and opened up a lead near the land. ..."
4. Two Years in the Klondike and Alaskan Gold-fields: A Thrilling Narrative of by William B. Haskell (1898)
"... Luck Still Followed Him — Others Less Fortunate — Feeling of the Old Miners
When They Saw the tenderfeet Taking Out Gold — A Little too Much — Hardships ..."
5. Pathfinding on Plain and Prairie: Stirring Scenes of Life in the Canadian by John McDougall (1898)
"Father pushes on for home in advance—Hard times for the "tenderfeet"—A plunge
into icy water—My brother David gallops into camp—His high spirits prove ..."
6. The Boy Pioneers, Sons of Daniel Boone by Daniel Carter Beard (1909)
"CHAPTER XV HOW TO HANDLE A GUN—A LOT OF GUN DON'TS— GUMPTION FOR CHUMPS AND
tenderfeet THE Sons of Daniel Boone can arm themselves with bows and arrows, ..."
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