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Definition: Tenderfoot |
TenderfootNoun1. An inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tenderfoot" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extraneousness | Noun: extraneousness; Adjective: extrinsicality; exteriority; alienage, alienism. foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo, newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander; outsider; Dago, wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner, Dutchman, tenderfoot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Tenderfoot (1964) A Tenderfoot Goes West (1936) The Tenderfoot (1932) A Tenderfoot Terror (1929) Tenderfoot Courage (1927) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tenderfoot | 14 |
requirement tenderfoot | 4 |
lucky luke episode 7 tenderfoot | 2 |
lancets tenderfoot | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "tenderfoot"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rishtar (fresher, initiate, neophyte, novice, probationer, rookie, tyro), i porsaardhur (incomer, new-come, newcomer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الوافد الجديد, شخص لم يألف الحياة الحافلة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | новак в работа. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nováèek (fledgeling, fledgling, greenhorn, new boy, newcomer, novice, recruit, tiro, tyro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیش اهنگ تازه کار, تازه کار (Beginner, Colt, Ham, Jackleg, Novice, Novitiate, Rookie, Tyro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | novice, nouveau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Unerfahrene (greenhorn, tenderfoots). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | νεοφεέμενοσ, άπειροσ (callow, green, greenhorn, inexperienced, inexpert, infinite, innumerable, unpracticed, unpractised, unskilled, unversed, verdant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zöldfülû (callow, coltish, greenhorn, verdant, youngling), újonc (apprentice, boot, conscript, conscriptee, dog-face, draftee, freshman, freshmen, greener, inductee, neophyte, new comer, novice, noviciate, recruit, rookie, rooky, tiro, trainee, tyro). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enderfoottay novice (apprentice, beginner, callow, colt, cub, entrant, fledgeling, greenhorn, innocent, intrant, neophyte, new, novice, probationer, recruit, tiro, tyro, untried), ageamiu (duffer, greenhorn, lamb, no-account, tyro), începãtor (a, abecedarian, apprentice, beginner, beginning, cadet, fledgeling, novice, raw hand, suckling, tiro, tyro). (various references) новоприбывший. (various references) novajlija (neophyte, newcomer, novice, rookie, tiro, trainee, tyro). (various references) principiante (abecedarian, beginner, novice, tyro). (various references) nykomling (new comer, new-come, newcomer). (various references) คนอ่อนหั". (various references) toy (beardless, callow, chicken, colt, dewy-eyed, green, greenhorn, inapt, inexperienced, naïve, punk, raw, runnynose, unworldly, verdant), muhallebi çocuğu (cissy, jellyfish, milksop, mollycoddle, sissy), acemi (apprentice, beginner, bungler, callow, catechumen, clumsy, colt, cub, dabster, green, greenhorn, guiltless, half-baked, inept, inexperienced, inexperienced hand, inexpert, jackaroo, johnny-come-lately, learner, neophyte, new, novice, Prentice, punk, raw, recruit, runnynose, simple, stooge, strange, stranger, sucking, tiro, trainee, tyro, unbaked, unfledged, unseasoned, unskilled, untrained, unversed, young, young in one's job). (various references) ніжне створіння, новачок (apprentice, cub, fresher, freshman, greener, new-come, rabbit, rookie, tiro, tyro, undergraduate, youngling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tenderfoot": tenderfoots. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-f-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
-2 letters: enrooted, foredone. | |
-3 letters: erodent, fordone, fretted, fronted, oftener, tetrode. | |
-4 letters: defter, denote, detent, dotter, enroot, fender, fetted, fetter, foetor, fonder, footed, footer, foredo, netted, netter, redone, rented, retted, rodent, roofed, rooted, rotted, rotten, tender, tented, tenter, teredo, tooted, tooter, torten. | |
-5 letters: defer, deter, donee, donor, doter, drone, ender, enter, erode, feted, fetor, fordo, forte, freed, frond, front, noted, noter, odeon, often, ofter, otter, redon, refed, rente, rodeo, rondo, rotte, tenet, tenor, terne, tondo, toned, toner, torot, torte, toted, toter, treed, treen, trend, trode, trone. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-f-n-o-o-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: tenderfoots. | |
+3 letters: deforestation. | |
+4 letters: deforestations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 6E 64 65 72 66 6F 6F 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100110 01101111 01101111 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e n d e r f o o t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 006E 0064 0065 0072 0066 006F 006F 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54718070718472818186 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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