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gossoon

noun /ɡɒˈsuːn/

  1. A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

    "Why, thin, upon my throth, an' it well becomes the likes o' ye, an' that's nothin' but a bit uv a gossoon, to take upon yer to purtind not to b'lieve what yer father, an' yer father's father, an' his father afore him, nivir med the laste doubt uv."

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gossoon (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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