Thank God for Brewer's--
Cautiously, with hesitating, mincing, or faltering steps.
The word is over 400 years old in English and has
nothing to do with ginger. It is probably from
O.Fr. *gensour*, comparative of *gent*, delicate,
dainty.
"They spend their goods . . . upon their dansing
minions, that mins it fel gingerlie, God wot, tripping
like gotes, that an egge would not brek under their
feet."
--Stubbes: *Anatomie of Abuses*, II, i (1583)
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