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Now, to my dismay, Muriel Smith writes in VERBATIM [XVIII,2,23] that “the suggested definition [ sic ] is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.
There is no Yiddish word “genzel” or “gantzel,” which Smith has copied, uncritically, from others.
There is support, in both the OED 2nd Supplement and the Dictionary of American Slang , by Wentworth and Flexner, for Tony Thorne's definition, in the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang [XVII, 3], of `callow youth' for gunsel . That appears to be the primary meaning of the word, whose suggested definition is from Yiddish genzel, gantzel and/ or German Gänslein, Gänzel `gosling, young goose.