Example sentences for: gunsel

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

  • 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.

  • You mention [XVII,3] the word gunsel as being a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman,' etc.

  • 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.

  • If Yiddish is the source of gunsel, someone will have to produce an etymon that is phonologically more likely than gendzl or, if that is indeed its etymon, explain the irregular sound change.


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