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As used in the movie The Maltese Falcon a gunsel refers to a young man "kept" by an older "sugar daddy". The word is apparently Yiddish -- meaning little goose -- and is used in the same way as the Yiddish word for "little bird" is used to refer to a male homosexual.
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