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Definition gunsel

Etymology 1

From Yiddish ??????‎ (gendzl, “gosling”), from Middle High German gensel, diminutive of gans (“goose”).

Noun

gunsel (plural gunsels)

1. (slang, dated) Synonym of catamite: a young man kept by an elder as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
2. (slang, dated) Synonym of bottom: a passive partner in a male homosexual relationship.
3. (prison slang, dated) Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship.

Etymology 2

By misunderstanding of the 1929 Maltese Falcon quotation above (which survived in a popular 1941 film adaptation). The novel was originally serialized in a magazine, Black Mask, whose editor refused to allow vulgarities. Hammett used the word gunsel knowing that the editor would likely misunderstand it as relating to gun, and therefore allow it.

Noun

gunsel (plural gunsels)

1. A gun-carrying hoodlum or other criminal.

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