Posted on 05/03/2006 6:33:26 AM PDT by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
gingerly • \JIN-jer-lee\ • adjective
very cautious or careful
Example sentence:
Simon held the soda bottle at arm's length after its shaky ride home on his bicycle and gave the cap a gingerly twist.
Did you know?
Etymologists take a gingerly approach to assigning any particular origins to this word. While it might have come from the name of the spice, there's nothing concrete to back up that idea. Another conjecture is that it's related to an Old French word, "gensor," that meant "delicate." That's because in 16th century English an earlier sense of "gingerly" often referred to dancing or walking with dainty steps. Not till the 17th century did it change to apply to movements that were cautious in order to avoid being noisy or causing injury, and to a wary manner in handling or presenting ideas. Not too surprisingly, given its "-ly" ending, "gingerly" is also quite often correctly used as an adverb. One could thus say that "Simon gingerly twisted the cap."
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
HAH!! Vey cute Robt.! Actually, what I find sensual are those soft cigarette packs you have down there. (We use thin cardboard up here).
My buddy Howard was taken to an oyster festival right before he got married by another friend. All you can eat for $X. He ate 21 dozen, two nights before he got married (and he was, and remains, not fat, except, of course, for his head). I've never let his wife forget that.
21 DOZEN?? holy crap/
Yup.
Hey!
(Takes stemina and lots of tongue dextearity to to spend hours eating (er, sucking dry) 21 sloppy, wet, flooded, twisted, interleaved, clammy bivalves (er, oysters).
Good practice, ya know.
I think he's a keeper.
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