gossoon
[go-soon]
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noun Irish English.
a boy; lad.
Origin of gossoon
1675–85; < Irish garsún boy < Anglo-French, Old French garçon
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Historical Examples of gossoon
Not bad travelling, Captain, for a bit of a gossoon like that.'
Jack HintonCharles James Lever
Gossoon,' he says, 'put a keg iv sherry wine on th' ice,' he says.
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in WarFinley Peter Dunne
There isn't a gossoon in the three baronies but knows that.'
Whoi, you gossoon, I'd never go near the ould spot at all, at all.
JigletsWalter Jones
He is a raal jewel, that gossoon o' mine, an' the light of his father's eyes.
RossmoyneUnknown
gossoon
noun
Word Origin for gossoon
C17: from Old French garçon
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