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A store-bought cowboy. A "rodeo" boy who dresses all out but won't step near a bull or bucking horse if his life depended on it. Someone who brags about winning tons of rodeos but he don't have a buckle to show it.
Look at that 'cowboy' sitting up in the stands. He's a gunsel
Gunsel by RealBullRider100 March 29, 2016
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A gunsel is when a “cowboy/rodeo boy” wants to dress all like one and act like one but their scared to death of a buckin horse or buckin bull!
Random fan boy:Hey look it’s dale brisby!!
Real cowboy:yea he’s a gunsel.
Gunsel by pov:i <3 to teamrope March 9, 2019
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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.
Sam Spade to Caspar Gutman "...and keep your gunsel away from me".
Gunsel by Genma Saotome May 16, 2021
In prison, a cheap little punk.

Also in prison, a catamite.
Eduardo is going to cut that little gunsel.
gunsel by Cap'n Bullmoose April 21, 2005
This is anybody that acts like Jakob Torrence
Jakob is a true gunsel
Gunsel by Down town kody brown August 25, 2019
An ancient term used in the 30's, but coming back in vouge on the west coast, meaning a little man carrying a gun - similar to flunky or a member of a posse.
"Why you cheap little gunsel, he sent you to do his dirty work."
gunsel by Dick Weed March 7, 2005
A guy that sniffs little girls bike seats
That Ole gunsel was down at the bike racks at the elementary school sniffing seats !
Gunsel by Goober sniffer August 9, 2025
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