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' Dunkling and Gosling and Hanks and Hodges, on the other hand, take such names back to their own origin, often in a place-name.
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.
Let the record be set straight: Yiddish has only gendzl `gosling.
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.
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).