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6 million could follow, although Thorne noted the state appropriated $927,000 of that amount through June 2003.
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.
Though Passaic Legal Aid did meet with LSC president John Erlenborn in June, Thorne says the meeting was too limited in scope to satisfy due process.
It may be consoling but scarcely exonerating for Thorne to learn that he is not alone in failing to label such matter accurately: some American informants are evidently not to be trusted or have become too sophisticated from traveling abroad or by associating with speakers of other dialects of English.
So when I see an entry in shtuk/shtook/stook/schtuk labeled “British” in Thorne's book, I at once get suspicious, especially when it is defined as `in trouble,' shtuk “in its various spellings” is described as Yiddish for `difficulties,' and there is a (good) entry for shtick , besides.