tenderfoot

But one month later the Times accused “all Northern California” of conspiring against “Southland,” sending agents to “spy out the land and send the tenderfoot northward.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

He joins a long and eclectic tradition of tenderfoot film-makers making good on their cinematic dreams – some of whom started even younger.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

In 1883, 25-year-old Theodore Roosevelt, a New York City tenderfoot wearing a Brooks Brothers suit, came to what was then Dakota Territory to hunt bison.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 1, 2015

While elegant with white-plaster walls, stainless-steel kitchen appliances and posh comforts, the cabin’s not a total tenderfoot, either.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2015

No wonder he’s like a boot, hard on the outside, giving shape to a pulp of tenderfoot.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Once in the woods, teachers fell back, leaving tenderfeet to find their way together.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

But there’s an advantage to being a freshman in a big class like this one — as tenderfeet, they’re not bound by deals and pacts made in previous sessions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011

Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as long as a fresh herd of tenderfeet are ready to jump on the country-line bandwagon.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had discovered that the Pony Rider Boys were not the band of tenderfeet that they had at first taken them for.

From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin

It could betray to our peers the awful truth that we are still greenhorns, tenderfoots, newbies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

That Joe Hurley oughtn’t to let you tenderfoots out of his sight.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes

They-all ain't sech tenderfoots as to keep on comin' when we've stopped.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

But don't forget that tenderfoots are like moisture, they seep in everywhere.

From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by E. (Enrique) Munguía

I reckollect that they allowed we'd made a big mistake,— They otter knowed us tenderfoots wuz sure to make a break!

From Second Book of Verse by Eugene Field