gingerly

副词可能派生自盎格魯-諾曼語 gençur和古法語 gençor、gensor (“更美丽的，更礼貌的”) [以及其他形式] + 英語 -ly (副词构成后缀)。gençor是gent (“美丽的，英俊的；贵族的，高贵的；礼貌的，彬彬有礼的；流利的；礼貌地；高雅地”)的比较级，^[1]源自晚期拉丁語 *gentus，拉丁語 genitus (“出身（好）的”)的变体，gignō (“结，成为...之父；导致，产生”)的被动完成时分词，^[2] 最终源自原始印歐語 *ǵenh₁- (“使...诞生；产生”)。

《牛津英语词典》指出，盎格鲁-诺曼语和古法语的12世纪的文献，以及13世纪以后才可考的现代法语词之间存在一个几个世纪的缺口。因而若现代英语词源自盎格鲁-诺曼语和古法语词，则必须是经由口头或已失传的文献传入的（可能是作为舞蹈界的术语）。^[1]

形容词派生自副词，可能是因为-ly亦是一个形容词构成后缀。^[1]

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈdʒɪn(d)ʒəli/

• （英国南部）音频：

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• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɚli/
• 斷字：gin‧ger‧ly

gingerly (比較級 more gingerly，最高級 most gingerly)

1. 小心翼翼地，谨慎地

   近義詞：(主英国，方言，加拿大，美国) ginger、tentatively、warily

   He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.

   他小心翼翼地将玻璃瓶放在水泥台阶上。

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   • 2012年6月3日, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Mr. Plow’”, 出自 The A.V. Club‎^[1]，於27 October 2020歸檔自原頁面:

     Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer [Simpson] into a new man. Mr. Burns' laziest employee suddenly becomes an ambitious self-starter who buys ad time on local television at 3:17 A.M (prime viewing hours, Homer gingerly volunteers, for everyone from alcoholics to the unemployable to garden-variety angry loners) and makes a homemade commercial costarring his family.

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   • 2014年1月20日, Michael Daly, “The Black and White Men who Saved Martin Luther King’s Life”, 出自 The Daily Beast‎^[2], 出版於 14 April 2017 (update)，於18 January 2021歸檔自原頁面:

     [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no "I Have a Dream" speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.

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2. (棄用，主要指舞蹈或走路) 步伐小地，优美地；装腔作势地
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• ginger (形容词、副词与动词)

• gingerish
• gingerness

gingerly (比較級 more gingerly，最高級 most gingerly)

1. 小心翼翼的

   近義詞：(主英国，方言，加拿大，美国) ginger、gingerish、tentative、wary

   • 1867, R[ebecca] H[arding] Davis, “The Valley of the Shadow”, 出自 Waiting for the Verdict, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon & Company, 出版於 1868, →OCLC，第 174 頁:

     But, ther's somethin' in the very look and voice of Jeems Strebling, even in his gingerly walk, that riles all the black drop in me.

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   • 1961 March, Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, image caption，第 185 頁:

     The down "Atlantic Coast Express", headed by Pacific No. 35020 Bibby Line, passes the scene of operations at a gingerly 10 m.p.h.

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   • 2012, David [Alan] Mack, 章號 28, 出自 Persistence of Memory (Star Trek: The Next Generation; Cold Equations; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, part 3 (Elegy):

     Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.

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2. (棄用，尤指人或其移动方式) 步伐小的，优美的；装腔作势的

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• niggerly