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Hammett had a taste for trying to slip censorable words past cautious editors, and he succeeded with gunsel , which sounds innocent enough to anyone who never heard it before.
You mention [XVII,3] the word gunsel as being a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman,' etc.
That vowel would not yield the first vowel of gunsel, hence a Yiddish origin for it is doubtful.
Happy Trails raises as many questions as it answers: I have trouble believing that gunsel is a “cowboy word for a braggart,” for which no evidence is adduced.
Further to the letter of Muriel Smith [XVIII, 2] regarding gunsel , perhaps her taste and discretion prevent her from quoting Queen more directly.