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

Yet he was a tenderfoot compared with attorney James P. Guenther, “the SBC’s long-serving outside counsel,” as investigators put it, who “had provided legal advice since 1966.”

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2022

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

“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

Remember this Leadville was in the early Tabor period a camp largely of tenderfeet, who, released from the restraining influence of their Eastern homes, ran wild for a time; a condition exotic rather than indigenous.

From Time Magazine Archive

“But most of the tenderfeet that come here hanker to ‘go slumming,’ as they call it.

From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

In Tent Avenue the news of his passing got about and presently a menagerie of tenderfoots were dogging his heels.

From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

Cow-punchers and prospectors and such don’t look like and don’t act like what tenderfoots is accustomed to, and so they size ’em up to be different all the way through.

From Santa Fé's Partner Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

An' he p'ints where them four tenderfoots is mixed up together in the back of the stage.

From Wolfville by Alfred Henry Lewis

Lots on 'em—more'n one kind, too—but mostly not the reg'lar kind they have where you tenderfoots live—bigger, and pickeder in front, and make more fuss.

From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes