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• Definition: gingerly.
• 7 gingerly 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. ... White adv : in a gingerly manner; "gingerly I raised the edge of the blanket" .
• Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Gingerly \Gin"ger*ly\, adv. ... What is't that you took up so gingerly ? --Shak. ...

• Gingerly We Roll Along "It was a gingerly first step," The New York Times' Erik Ekholm and Eric Schmidt wrote on December 24, in a page one article about the return of some residents to Falluja (or "war-ravaged Falluja," to give the city. ...
• Gingerly We Roll Along.
• "It was a gingerly first step," The New York Times' Erik Ekholm and Eric Schmidt wrote on December 24, in a page one article about the return of some residents to Falluja (or "war-ravaged Falluja," to give the city its official name). The sentence caught my attention merely because it used gingerly in what I always assumed to be the correct way, as an adjective. That's so rare as to be newsworthy -- if you do a Nexis search of the previous 50 instances of gingerly in the Times, going back to July 1, 2004, you find it used an adverb every single time: .
• Benepe put it gingerly, ''separates the bull from the steer. ...
• his chubby right foot pressing gingerly into her wrist. ...
• A couple of cleaning women in white uniforms stepped gingerly around the large potted palms. ...
• Everyone slurped, adding the sauces or not, gingerly tossing in more bean sprouts for crackle. ...
• behavioral economics, which is gingerly stepping away from the economists' orthodoxy that humans are eternally rational. ...
• In defense of the usage, gingerly began its life as an adverb. ... And unlike most other adjectives in -ly, like friendly or portly, gingerly has an adverbial meaning, so that it can only apply to nominals denoting actions (like "step" in Ekholm and Schmidt's article); otherwise it requires a clumsy periphrasis like "in a gingerly way. ...
• But the adjective ginger has been obsolete for a long time, and it's notable that nobody is tempted to back-form it anew, as in "his ginger handling of the question," which is what you'd expect if the adverbial gingerly were really analyzed as composed of the root ginger plus the derivational suffix -ly.
• Gingerly is just the way the mental lexicon's gingerlyly comes out on the tongue or the page. ...

• Ginger Snap In my post on gingerly, I suggested that one curiosity of the adverbial use is people's reluctance to back-form an adjective ginger. ...
• In my post on gingerly, I suggested that one curiosity of the adverbial use is people's reluctance to back-form an adjective ginger. ...
• And for these writers, gingerly is pretty clearly just a common-or-garden adverb formed in -ly. ... A Nexis major papers search on "gingerly way," "gingerly fashion," or "gingerly manner" turns up 124 hits; a search on the same phrases with ginger turns up just one, from the Washington Post (2/15/1988):.
• It seems fair to conclude that for most people who use gingerly as an adverb, it has the distinction of being the only manner adverb formed in -ly (well, make that the only one I can think of) that isn't formed on an adjectival stem -- that is, unless you assume as I do that the word is really a haplologized version of gingerlily. ...

• He gingerly moved his hand toward his nether regions and whipped out his big, thick. ...

• Friend : friendly :: ginger : X, where X = gingerly. ...
• Posted by Noetica at December 28, 2004 01:27 AM Geoff Nunberg has a post at Language Log on the word gingerly: a NY Times story on Falluja included the statement "it was a gingerly first step," which provoked his automatic resistance. ...
• What he says is The sentence caught my attention merely because it used gingerly in what I always assumed to be the correct way, as an adjective. ...
• He's saying that gingerly is, basically and traditionally, an adjective, and the adverbial use results as a haplology of the derived form gingerlyly.
• Racking my brain for some way to throw in a pun about "gingerly snaps" or "beer" but nothing seems to be forthcoming. "He gingerly snapped to attention"? Weak, very weak.

• gingerly, that's how i do everything. i walk down the stairs gingerly. i slide out of a booth after eating gingerly. i get out of bed gingerly and often regrettably and sometimes even against-my-willingly. ...
• before gingerly sliding out of a booth at mcdonald's the other day, i decided to do a little eavesdropping. ...
• i can't figure out how to gingerly end this piece without mentioning depression and the american way. ...

• Gingerly.
• Gingerly, according to Marriam-Webster's Word of the Day (January 25, 2001), is also an adjective. For example: "I made a gingerly attempt to find a node that described jamming a pair of scissors into your crotch repeatedly. ...
• What is't that you took up so gingerly ? Shak. ...

• Gareth's diary | Respond to this comment Comment : Gingerly & baths.
• Congrats on losing the cast and beginning the PWB portion of your lovely experience! Do remember to follow that word "gingerly" you mentioned. ...
• Gingerly & baths - Tim_H Thu 9 Jan 2003 .

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• TMC treads gingerly over stand on DMK .

• New York Times Gingerly, NATO Plans Broader Role for Moscow.

• WALKING GINGERLY THROUGH THE WOODS .

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