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Let the record be set straight: Yiddish has only gendzl `gosling.
Read Maureen Gosling's journals about the making of Fitzcarraldo , or Bruce Chatwin's essay on Cobra Verde , and you discover a rather different Kinski: an irascible, lonely, lovable eccentric, whose fits of rage come and go like squalls, whose childish enthusiasm for filmmaking and playacting bursts through the put-on cynicism.
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 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.
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.