Example sentences for: gantzel

How can you use “gantzel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • 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.


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