Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gunzel
Participle: gunzelled
Gerund: gunzelling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gunzel |
| you | gunzel |
| he;she;it | gunzels |
| we | gunzel |
| you | gunzel |
| they | gunzel |
Perfect
| I | have gunzelled |
| you | have gunzelled |
| he;she;it | has gunzelled |
| we | have gunzelled |
| you | have gunzelled |
| they | have gunzelled |
Past
| I | gunzelled |
| you | gunzelled |
| he;she;it | gunzelled |
| we | gunzelled |
| you | gunzelled |
| they | gunzelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gunzelled |
| you | had gunzelled |
| he;she;it | had gunzelled |
| we | had gunzelled |
| you | had gunzelled |
| they | had gunzelled |
Future
| I | will gunzel |
| you | will gunzel |
| he;she;it | will gunzel |
| we | will gunzel |
| you | will gunzel |
| they | will gunzel |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gunzelled |
| you | will have gunzelled |
| he;she;it | will have gunzelled |
| we | will have gunzelled |
| you | will have gunzelled |
| they | will have gunzelled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gunzel |
| you | gunzel |
| he;she;it | gunzel |
| we | gunzel |
| you | gunzel |
| they | gunzel |
Perfect
| I | have gunzelled |
| you | have gunzelled |
| he;she;it | have gunzelled |
| we | have gunzelled |
| you | have gunzelled |
| they | have gunzelled |
Imperfect
| I | gunzelled |
| you | gunzelled |
| he;she;it | gunzelled |
| we | gunzelled |
| you | gunzelled |
| they | gunzelled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gunzelled |
| you | had gunzelled |
| he;she;it | had gunzelled |
| we | had gunzelled |
| you | had gunzelled |
| they | had gunzelled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gunzel |
| you | would gunzel |
| he;she;it | would gunzel |
| we | would gunzel |
| you | would gunzel |
| they | would gunzel |
Perfect
| I | would have gunzelled |
| you | would have gunzelled |
| he;she;it | would have gunzelled |
| we | would have gunzelled |
| you | would have gunzelled |
| they | would have gunzelled |
Imperative
| you | gunzel |
| we | Let's gunzel |
| you | gunzel |
Verbs conjugated like 'gunzel'
abet,
abhor,
abut,
acquit,
admit,
affrap,
allot,
alum,
amel,
amit,
anagram,
anvil,
apparel,
aret,
arret,
assot,
astun,
attrap,
augur,
avel, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gunzel'
gunge,
gunzip,
tunnel,
angel,
bunker,
bushel,
cancel,
counsel,
cudgel,
cupel,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Origin uncertain; possibly from gunsel (“stupid or contemptible fellow, creep; young man kept for homosexual purposes, catamite”), from Yiddish גענדזל (gendzl, “gosling”), from Middle High German gensel,
2. diminutive of gans (“goose”) (compare German Gänslein (“gosling”), from Gans (“goose”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns (“goose”)).
3. There is an unverified suggestion that the word was first used in the 1960s by staff of the Sydney Tramway Museum in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, to describe shabbily dressed trainspotters. They were apparently influenced by the word gunsel (“a gun-carrying hoodlum”), which had been popularized in the film The Maltese Falcon (1941) based on the 1929 novel of the same name by American author Dashiell Hammet (1894–1961).
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