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tenderfoot |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tenderfoot \Ten"der*foot`\, n. See {Boy scout}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tenderfoot \Ten"der*foot`\, n. A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. [Slang, Western U. S.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tenderfoot n : an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)
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