Gossoon

Quick meaning: Gossoon is a noun meaning (Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

Meaning

(Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

Example Sentences

..and a whole army of gorsoons were hunting a poor dog with a kittle tied to his tail.

‘He wants to be something he's not,’ he'd say. ‘He's fish, that gossoon, and he wants to be fowl.’

"Thank you for the compliment, your Reverence," he replied, construing the delicate innuendo in a favourable sense' "sure every one, high and low, knows Andy Spain, the roadmaker, after his forty years on the highway, since I was a gossoon helpin' my father, who was a roadmaker before me.Bedad, I am a well-known character, and no mistake."

Word Forms

• gossoons

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include goony, goosy, goonie, gooney, goon, gallopin.

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