Word: tenderfooted
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First Wingate built his force, partly from tenderfoot Tommies (many drafted from soft jobs back of the line), partly from native troops. He whipped them into a lean, knife-happy fighting force that last year slipped deep into Japanese lines, cut railroads, blew bridges, slipped out again two and a half months later...
Sometimes the "cheechakos" (tenderfoot white men) have to fight their way to their nearby stations through furious blizzards. Wolves and bears prowl the air strips and sniff around the doors...
July 5-Medicine. Cheechako is not Eskimo for "tenderfoot." It's Chinook...
TIME, July 5, p. 40, says that the name of Dr. Good's boat Cheechako is Eskimo for "tenderfoot." Right you are about tenderfoot, but not Eskimo. Cheechako is pure Chinook Jargon; chee meaning new, recent, or just now, while chako means to come, or arrive, or approach...
...years he had a succession of little sailboats, each needing only two for a crew, each with a dental chair and firm foothold for the doctor on the afterdeck. Finally in 1936 he had one built that exactly suited him-the Cheechako (why Good named her the Eskimo for "tenderfoot" no one knows), a neat, 42-foot, diesel-engined ketch with a hot-water heating system, a bathtub and a small organ for his handsome daughter to play...