gossoon

American  

[go-soon] / gɒˈsun /

noun

Irish English.

1. a boy; lad.

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gossoon British  

/ ɡɒˈsuːn /

noun

1. a boy, esp a servant boy

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Etymology

Origin of gossoon

1675–85; < Irish garsún boy < Anglo-French, Old French garçon

Example Sentences

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gossoon

“Because, if so, she’s come to an end—as the gossoon said when he slid down the cow’s tail and she kicked him into the praist’s strawberry bed.”

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Bertram Mitford

"Work away, boys," said the gossoon in question; "I'll engage I'll shoulder my loy at the end of the ridge as soon as some of ye that's spaking."

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by E. Rameur

But that gossoon there; he can't go too, as I've always gone alone.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

I remember asking a gossoon a couple of miles west of Ballaghaderreen in the Co.

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Charles Gavan Duffy

“I’m thinkin’ the gossoon will be sorry for it, wan way or t’other.”

From Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence by Louis Arundel