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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.
Clearly, David Galef's classics course was done in translation, for had he read in Greek, he would never have written Pandora's Box but Pandora's Wine Jar [The Niceness Principle, XVII , 2].
The review of my Bloomsbury Dictionary of Dedications [XVII,4] made no mention of the fact that the quoted dedications are glossed or explicated.
You mention [XVII,3] the word gunsel as being a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman,' etc.
Jack Orbaum [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] wants to make readers aware of what he calls a “mistranslation” in the Bible.