"gossoon" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Irish garsún, from Old French garçun. Doublet of garçon.",
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      "form": "gossoons",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1866, Patrick Kennedy, “Jack and His Comrades”, in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts",
          "text": "..and a whole army of gorsoons were hunting a poor dog with a kittle tied to his tail.",
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          "ref": "1912, Joseph Guinan, The Curate of Kilcloon, page 90",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 63",
          "text": "‘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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        "A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey."
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        "(Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "gazoon"
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          "word": "gorsoon"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɡɒˈsuːn/",
      "tags": [
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      ]
    }
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  "word": "gossoon"
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1866, Patrick Kennedy, “Jack and His Comrades”, in Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts",
          "text": "..and a whole army of gorsoons were hunting a poor dog with a kittle tied to his tail.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1912, Joseph Guinan, The Curate of Kilcloon, page 90",
          "text": "\"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.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 63",
          "text": "‘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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        "A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey."
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        "(Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "gazoon"
    },
    {
      "word": "gorsoon"
    }
  ],
  "word": "gossoon"
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