Definition of "tender-footed" []

• Having tender or sensitive feet.
• Cautious; timid; “green.” Compare tenderfoot.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I'm a cowman and a prospector, but I'm sure tender-footed on water, an 'they don't know punkins."
• "Gilbert should be ashamed of his moronic rant, not because it was racist, or because of any underlying hints of a master-slave relationship, but because such grossly asinine communications should remain the domain of tender-footed teenagers, and not grown men."
• "When, maybe almost an hour later I finally found her in the dark, she was surrounded by cactus, and too scared and tender-footed to move."