gossoon

• gazoon
• gorsoon

From Irish garsún, from Old French garçun. Doublet of garçon.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɒˈsuːn/

gossoon (plural gossoons)

1. (Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
   • 1866, Patrick Kennedy, “Jack and His Comrades”, in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts:

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

   • 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 63:

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

• Goosson