英语词汇tenderfoot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

tenderfoot. As early as the 17th century the British applied this word to horses that needed breaking in before they could handle heavy loads. Next they used tenderfoot as a derogatory term for a vagrant. It wasn’t until the California gold rush of 1849 that Americans applied the word to footsore people un- used to the hardships of pioneer life as they traveled in search of gold. Soon tenderfoot was a term for any greenhorn, not only one with sore feet. “In my tenderfoot ignorance,” Owen Wister wrote in The Virginian (1902), “I was looking indoors for the washing arrangements.”

词汇	tenderfoot
词源	tenderfoot. As early as the 17th century the British applied this word to horses that needed breaking in before they could handle heavy loads. Next they used tenderfoot as a derogatory term for a vagrant. It wasn’t until the California gold rush of 1849 that Americans applied the word to footsore people un- used to the hardships of pioneer life as they traveled in search of gold. Soon tenderfoot was a term for any greenhorn, not only one with sore feet. “In my tenderfoot ignorance,” Owen Wister wrote in The Virginian (1902), “I was looking indoors for the washing arrangements.”
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