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gunsel U.S. slang.|ˈgʌnsəl|
Also gonsil, gunshel, gun(t)zel.
[ad. Yiddish genzel, f. G. gänslein gosling, little goose.]
1. A (naïve) youth; a tramp's young companion, male lover; a homosexual youth.
1914Jackson & Hellyer Vocab. Criminal Slang 40 Gunshel, current amongst yeggs chiefly. A boy; a youth; a neophyte of trampdom. 1923N. Anderson Hobo vii. 101 Gonsil, youth not yet adopted by jocker. 1927Amer. Speech II. 387/2 Men can be observed traveling with boys... The boy has many names,—punk, gazooney, guntzel and bronc. Punk, guntzel and gazooney are also used to refer to any sort of green lad. 1929D. Hammett in Black Mask Nov. 43/1 Keep that gunsel away from me while you're making up your mind. 1931G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 88 Gonsil, a young tramp, not yet taken in hand and bent to his will by an older man. A boy. A passive male homosexual, usually a youth or younger man. Also gunsel. 1946Mencken Amer. Lang. xi. 582 The tramp..carries a boy with him, to rustle food for him and serve him otherwise..the boy is a punk,..guntzel. Ibid. 584 Gonov, which means a thief to thieves, means a fool on the carnival lot, and the same meaning is given to guntzel, which means, in the jungles, the boy companion of a tramp.
2. [as if f. gun n.] An informer, a criminal, a gunman.
1950H. E. Goldin Dict. Amer. Underworld Lingo 89/1 Gunzel,..(by extension) an informer, a weasel, an unscrupulous person. 1951New Yorker 3 Mar. 26/3 Scores of hoodlums, gunsels, informers. 1959G. Fisher Hospitality for Murder xix. 151 Bruce thought he'd never make a reliable gunsel. 1964W. Markfield To Early Grave (1965) vi. 109 After all, didn't Ben Gurion himself hand her a blank cheque, she should have what to hire a couple gunsels? 1965J. Wainwright Web of Silence 34 The voice said: ‘..This is a gun—and it's silenced. Okay?’..I tried to work out what sort of a voice the gunsel had. |