American slang dating back to the time of the old west. It was used by people who were established in frontier towns to describe someone new, either to the area or the prevailing conditions; someone lacking experience and who was perhaps a little naive. Mildly disparaging but without any real malice it is still used occasionally to describe someone who is just starting out on their chosen career.
n. an individual that is genuinely affected by the stuff of life, who finds joy in the warm, quiet, non-judgmental, positive things and is deeply hurt by the opposite. one who feels a lot of feelings/unabashedly emotional. origin: tumblr.
i wannacollect all of the tenderhearts and whisper to them that things will be okay.
Someone “on Tender" is a new Tinder user unfamiliar with the ethos, etiquette and mentality, comprising the app’s dualistic sociality of idealized, YOLO-ironic hookup culture and societally significantMillennial sexual progressiveness, resulting in a lack of matches and an overly innocent approach to interacting with matches.
Although Mark only recently joined Tinder, little does he know he's actually On Tender: One month in, and due to his shy nature, sense of propriety, and fear of meaningless sex, he has only 14 matches, two responses from those matches, and zero dates.