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

“Your plan to show up Eugene Hammond as a tenderfoot at the butchering,” I said to refresh his memory.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

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

In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Idaho, which has almost twice as much trout water as California and Oregon combined, and only about a tenth as many fishermen, has plenty of other streams where tenderfeet can do better.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other tenderfeet had done better, for in a few weeks some of them had cleaned up from $10,000 to $15,000.

From All about the Klondyke gold mines by J. Armoy Knox

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

You see, we were "tenderfoots," as far as having had any experience with burros was concerned, or we might have selected a more sprightly pair for our fellow-pilgrims.

From Birds of the Rockies by Leander S. (Leander Sylvester) Keyser

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

Scarcely anyone pays attention to them except the tenderfoots.

From The Fifth Ace by George W. Gage

Wall, if you're from the backwoods, 'tain't likely you'll suffer ez much ez some of the tenderfoots wot's older.

From To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon by Edward Stratemeyer