gunsel

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How much more of this cheap-jack bullshit can we be expected to take from that stupid little gunsel?

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  • By the time Dawna had untangled her weapon, the gunsel was barking orders. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002
  • How much more of this cheap-jack bullshit can we be expected to take from that stupid little gunsel? —  Pharyngula
  • At the same time, Wasp jabs a gunsel (the slang definition applies here, not the standard Merriam-Webster definition; sheesh, I am shocked by the things one learns while writing these things). —  The Comic Treadmill
  • Binder is certain one of the men is Mike Spranze, an underworld gunsel who was close to Capone. —  The Times Today's News
  • I love this scene: the gunsel holding two massive guns is the actually the least powerful one in the room, while the smart, fast-on-his-feet Sam Spade effortlessly exercises real power even while surrounded by mortal enemies, because he understands exactly how the real world works. —  d r i f t g l a s s
 

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  1. Perhaps alteration (influenced by gun) of Yiddish gendzl, gosling, diminutive of gandz, goose, from Middle High German gans, from Old High German; see ghans- in Indo-European roots.
 

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