tenderfoot

1. 1.

   an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)

   Broadernovice

Other forms of tenderfoot

plural

tenderfeet

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tenderfoot

What does tenderfoot mean?

tenderfoot means "an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)".

How many syllables are in tenderfoot?

tenderfoot has 3 syllables: ten-der-foot. The stress falls on "ten".

Is tenderfoot a common word?

tenderfoot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.