Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gingerly

Gingerly , adverb

[Prov. English ginger brittle, tender; compare dial. Swedish gingla, gangla, to go gently, totter, akin to English gang.]

Cautiously; timidly; fastidiously; daintily.
What is't that you took up so gingerly? — Shakespeare