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

Wasn't I once, on a day gone by, another 'poor little gossoon'?

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

"Shure," she panted, "that gossoon would be a good missenger to sind for Death, for he wouldn't be after gitting him here in a hurry at all at all."

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee

"He's aye restless betimes; and—but it's comin', it's comin', me blessed gossoon!"

From Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life by Merrill, Frank T. (Frank Thayer)

"Maybe it's a gossoon you'd like to carry the little trunk."

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

He is to add half an acre to his potato-garden, or to buy another pig, or to send the "gossoon" to a school in the town, or to pay his passage to New York.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund