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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gingerly \Gin"ger*ly\, adverb [Prov. E. ginger brittle, tender; cf. dial. Sw. gingla, g["a]ngla, to go gently, totter, akin to E. gang.] Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
What is't that you took up so gingerly ? --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gingerly
adjective: with extreme care or delicacy; "they proceeded with gingerly footwork over the jagged stones"; "the issue was handled only in a gingerly way"- W.S.White
adverb: in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "gingerly": calculating, cannily, canny, careful, carefully, cautious, cautiously, charily, chary, circumspect, circumspectly, considerate, daintily, dainty, deliberate, delicate, delicately, discreet, fastidious, guarded, guardedly, heedful, hesitant, judicious, leaving out nothing, mindful, nervous, noncommittal, on guard, overlooking no possibility, pawky, politic, prudent, regardful, safe, shy, shyly, slow to act, squeamish, tentative, tentatively, thorough, timid, timidly, timorous, timorously, unadventurous, uncommunicative, undaring, unenterprising, unprecipitate, warily, wary, watchful
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