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

She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its young.

From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2024

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

“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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No doubt these men, regarding us as "tenderfeet," took pleasure, as usual, in mystifying us; and it was our policy not to undeceive them.

From A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado by Roper, Edward

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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 Field, Eugene

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

From The King of Arcadia by Lynde, Francis

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

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

We've got a lot o' tenderfoots over there to-night, and I'm a little shy27 of Bailey's biscuits.

From The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota by Garland, Hamlin