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

They did their best, however, only it was a disgrace to see long Jem the stableboy, and Bill the gossoon that used to go of errands, waiting, without any body to direct them, when there was a real baronet and his lady at table; for Sir Augustus was none of your knights.

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"Bill, don't lane on that boy on the ridge wid you; he's not much more nor a gossoon; give him a start of you."

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"Gossoon aniow; be gorra, he's as smart a chap on the face of a ridge as the best of us, Tom."

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"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."

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"It was wan word for the gossoon, as he calls him, an' two for himself, Bill," chimed in the man on the next ridge.

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