Search: gingerly etymology
Why: It's in just about every book ever, but I don't understand it. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo:
Then, gingerly, she picked up the blowtorch.I mean, what? I don't even know what that's supposed to mean.
Also, I just had some ginger dressing. I eat it a lot, but it always reminds me of Heather Chandler's Drano-corn nuts puke in Heathers.
Answer: First, that word means: adj. careful, cautious or adv. cautiously, with great care!
It comes from a word that means "elegant" or "dainty"!
- from Latin gentius, "well-born" (as in gentle, as in gentleman)
- from gent or Old French gensor, "dainty, delicate"
- 1510s, "elegantly, daintily"
- 1600, "extremely cautiously
- from Sanskrit srngam, "horn" + vera, "body" = srngaveram, named for the horny shape of its root
- from Prakit (Middle Indic) singabera
- from Greek zingiberis
- from Latin zingiberi
- from Middle Latin gingiber
- from mid-14 century Old English gingifer
- ginger!
The More You Know: Or!
- from Malayalam inchi, "root" and inchi-ver, "spice"
- from Old French gingebre
- from 1843 American English, "spirit, spunk, temper"
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