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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'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.
He and Thorne, however, say the loss of federal funds is the first step in a process that will also cost them about $1.
As Thorne is an Englishman, I trust him on British, Irish, Scots, and even Australian slang (though Australians may take exception).
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.