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As Thorne is an Englishman, I trust him on British, Irish, Scots, and even Australian slang (though Australians may take exception).
Thorne also argued successfully before the state Supreme Court that Head Start and similar preschool programs should receive full state funding.
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.
Tony Thorne is described (in Bloomsbury's publicity blurb) as “former punk and hippie now turned academic,” which is all we know about him.
Tony Thorne's Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (1990) claims that it has been adopted by non-native hippies and travellers living in the West Country to refer to anyone who is not approved of.