| slovo | definícia |
tenderfoot
(mass) | tenderfoot
- nováčik |
tenderfoot
(encz) | tenderfoot,nováček n: Zdeněk Brož |
tenderfoot
(encz) | tenderfoot,zelenáč n: Zdeněk Brož |
Tenderfoot
(gcide) | 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.] |
tenderfoot
(gcide) | 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.] |
tenderfoot
(wn) | tenderfoot
n 1: an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced
in outdoor living) |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
Tenderfoot
(gcide) | 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.]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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