Crossword clues for gingerly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gingerly \Gin"ger*ly\, adv. [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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "elegantly, daintily," perhaps from Old French gensor, comp. of gent "dainty, delicate," from Latin gentius "(well)-born" (see gentle). Meaning "extremely cautiously" is from c.1600.
Wiktionary
a. very careful or cautious. adv. gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.
WordNet
adj. 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
adv. in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket"
Usage examples of "gingerly".
Pedrix, Yasoth and one Jussel Menda, representing the Merchant Guilds, together with the representatives of the Agnates and the Mountain Coalition stepped gingerly into the skim-wing.
Still doubtful, Alec pulled the smallest urchin gingerly from the bowl by one of its spines.
As he reached it, a fellow chief, this one a chief aviation pilot with the wings of a Naval Aviator on his shirt, appeared in the fuselage bubble gingerly holding a canvas suitcase in his fingers.
Gingerly, with trembling knees, they set out to cross the next beflowered bridge.
Groaning, Cade gingerly lowered himself to one knee so he could unzip the bag and pull a sawed-off shotgun out of its thick nest of money.
He rose, stretching his muscles gingerly, limped out through the hack door to the water barrel, and dashed a calabash of water over his head.
At last, however, breakfast was cleared away, and Job, at my request, fetched the chest, and placed it upon the table in a somewhat gingerly fashion, as though he mistrusted it.
He took a deep breath, let it out slowly, opened the datacom, snapped it immediately shut, and then, at last, opened it once more, gingerly, as though lifting the lid on a coffin.
Unnerving, because Hel was now totally dependent on the cable, after ninety minutes of negotiating the narrow, twisting shaft with its bottlenecks, narrow ledges, tricky dihedrons, and tight passages down which he had to ease himself gingerly, never surrendering to gravity because the cable was slack to give him maneuvering freedom.
She watched him drw the cork and gingerly sniff the neck of the bottle.
She moved gingerly, trying to get her bearings, and realized she was sitting on the rear empennage of the ship.
He turned slowly, the ergometer held gingerly between the two forefingers of each hand in order that the opaque material of the suit should not block off the telltale radiation.
He sat gingerly on the bed, at Goldilocks other side and held one of her feet.
Using a wide broom, Grom gingerly shifted the body off the stone, only to have it crumble into pieces.
The man sat down gingerly on one of the slippery haircloth chairs, and proceeded at once to state his business.