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Nimbly vs Gingerly - What's the difference?

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Nimbly is a related term of gingerly.


As adverbs the difference between nimbly and gingerly

is that nimbly is in a nimble manner while gingerly is gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.

As an adjective gingerly is

very careful or cautious.

nimbly

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • in a nimble manner
  • * ca. 1592-3 --- Shakespeare:
    • And now, in stead of mounting Barbed Steeds, To fright the Soules of fearfull Adversaries, He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a Lute
  • * 2000 -- Eiji Yoshikawa: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN4770026099&id=7eViflk6d9IC&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=4rsrFEY4Pl&dq=%22,+nimbly+jumping+up+and+snatching+a+bee+out+of+the+air%22&sig=R5p9PuInBl3LFAjRn7DEXPTht6A#PRA3-PA1,M1]
  • *:"The bee belongs to the one who caught it! If you catch it, it's your bee!" he said, nimbly jumping up and snatching a bee out of the air. "Yow! This one's mine!"

    • gingerly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Gently; in a delicate or cautious manner.
    • He placed the glass jar gingerly on the concrete step.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 3 , author=Nathan Rabin , title=TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Mr. Plow” (season 4, episode 9; originally aired 11/19/1992) citation , page= , passage=Purchasing a snowplow transforms Homer 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.}}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • very careful or cautious.
  • * 1867 , (Rebecca Harding Davis), Waiting For The Verdict'', chapter 19 “The Valley of the Shadow”, published 1868 in ''The Galaxy magazine, volume 4, page 223:
    • 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.
  • * 1886 , (Thomas Hardy), (The Mayor of Casterbridge) , :
    • …penetrating cautiously into dark cellars, sallying forth with gingerly tread to the garden, now leaf-strewn by autumn winds…
  • * 2012 , (w), Star Trek: The Next Generation — Cold Equations Book One: Persistence of Memory , chapter 28:
    • Several gingerly taps on her console fired clusters of modified probes into the maelstrom of the gas giant’s atmosphere.

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