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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

abecedarian, alphabetarian, apprentice, arriviste, articled clerk, baby, beginner, boot, catechumen, colt, conscript, dabbler, deb, debutant, dilettante, draft, drafted man, draftee, dunce, emigrant, enlistee, enrollee, entrant, fledgling, fool, freshman, gate-crasher, greenhorn, greeny, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, immigrant, inductee, infant, initiate, intruder, know-nothing, learner, levy, lowbrow, middlebrow, neophyte, nestling, new arrival, new boy, newcomer, no scholar, novice, novitiate, novus homo, parvenu, postulant, probationer, probationist, puddinghead, raw recruit, recruit, rookie, selectee, settler, squatter, stowaway, trainee, tyro, unintelligentsia, upstart

Dictionary Results for tenderfoot:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

tenderfoot
    n 1: an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced
         in outdoor living)

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Tenderfoot \Ten"der*foot`\, n.
   1. A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and
      rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U. S.]
      [1913 Webster]

   2. See Boy scout.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Boy scout \Boy scout\
   Orig., a member of the "Boy Scouts," an organization of boys
   founded in 1908, by Sir R. S. S. Baden-Powell, to promote
   good citizenship by creating in them a spirit of civic duty
   and of usefulness to others, by stimulating their interest in
   wholesome mental, moral, industrial, and physical activities,
   etc. Hence, a member of any of the other similar
   organizations, which are now worldwide. In "The Boy Scouts of
   America" the local councils are generally under a scout
   commissioner, under whose supervision are scout masters, each
   in charge of a troop of two or more patrols of eight scouts
   each, who are of three classes, tenderfoot, second-class
   scout, and first-class scout.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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