Meaning of gossoon | Babel Free

Definitions

A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

Ireland

Examples

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

“"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⟳."”

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

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