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(As their role models Dunkling and Gosling prefer the popular actresses Susan Hayward, Susan Hampshire, and Susan Strasberg, while Hanks and Hodges instance no individual Susan at all, literary or otherwise.)
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.
In the latter respect it differs from Dunkling and Gosling, who go more for real-life bearers, especially stage and screen celebrities, and from Hanks and Hodges, whose representation of historic bearers is rather restricted.
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.
Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).