Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(US tramp) a young, homosexual sidekick who accompanies a tramp.

1918		H. Simon ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 27/1: Gazooney. Catamite.
1933		Ersine Und. and Prison Sl. 39: gazock, gazooney, n. A lad. ‘Send the gazooney after a couple of pints.’.
1936		Mencken Amer. Lang. (4th edn) 582: The tramp who carries a boy with him, to rustle food for him and serve him otherwise, is a jocker or wolf, and the boy is a punk, gazooney, guntzel, lamb or prushun.
1941		G. Legman ‘Lang. of Homosexuality’ Appendix VII in Henry Sex Variants.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 77/2: Gazooney. (mid-West prisons) A degenerate, especially a passive pederast; a punk.
1952		in Lethbridge (Alberta) Herald 22 Mar. 14/4: Of course, you‘ll find many gazooneys and guntzels around the race tracks as well as the carnivals.
1965		Guild Dict. Homosexual Terms 18: gazooney (n.): A young pedicant companion of a pedicator. (Rare, if still in use.).
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 107: Hobo slang (kwn ’30s & ’40s) [...] The adolescent who usually doubled as cook/lover to a homosexual hobo was called a [...] gazooney.
1979		Maledicta III:2 232: He also may or may not know the following words and expressions: [...] gazooney.