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tenderfooted

adjective as in fresh

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Riding in a covered wagon was a picnic, but my father’s team was composed of both horses and cattle, and the oxen soon became tenderfooted and had to be turned loose and driven behind the wagons.

I being now relieved of this responsibility, stayed behind the train and drove the tenderfooted oxen.

But that may be my tenderfooted inexperience showing.

Washington isn't a place for the softheaded or tenderfooted.

But Shank's mare is tenderfooted, and there are twenty miles of stony hills and shaggy woods between here and the fort.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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