Usually means: Carefully, with great caution, delicately.
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  1. gingerly: Merriam-Webster
  2. gingerly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gingerly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gingerly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gingerly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gingerly, gingerly: Wordnik
  7. gingerly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gingerly: Wiktionary
  9. gingerly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gingerly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gingerly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gingerly, gingerly: Dictionary.com
  13. gingerly: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gingerly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Gingerly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gingerly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gingerly: Rhymezone
  18. gingerly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gingerly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gingerly: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gingerly: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gingerly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gingerly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Gingerly: World Wide Words
  25. gingerly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. gingerly: Legal dictionary

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  1. Gingerly: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See gingerliness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a cautious and delicate manner; (very) carefully or cautiously.
adverb:  (obsolete) Chiefly of dancing or walking: done with small, dainty steps; daintily; also, with excessive delicacy; affectedly, mincingly.
adjective:  Often of movements: very careful, cautious, or delicate.
adjective:  (obsolete) Often of a person or the way they move: dainty, delicate; also, excessively delicate; affected, mincing.

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