gossoon

[go-soon]

noun Irish English.

a boy; lad.

Origin of gossoon

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

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Examples from the Web for gossoon

Historical Examples of gossoon

Not bad travelling, Captain, for a bit of a gossoon like that.'
Jack Hinton
Charles James Lever
Gossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Finley Peter Dunne
There isn't a gossoon in the three baronies but knows that.'
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 694
Various
Whoi, you gossoon, I'd never go near the ould spot at all, at all.
Jiglets
Walter Jones
He is a raal jewel, that gossoon o' mine, an' the light of his father's eyes.
Rossmoyne
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British Dictionary definitions for gossoon

gossoon

noun

Irish a boy, esp a servant boy

Word Origin for gossoon

C17: from Old French garçon

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