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Gorsoon vs Gossoon - What's the difference?

gorsoon | gossoon | Alternative forms |

Gorsoon is an alternative form of gossoon.


As nouns the difference between gorsoon and gossoon

is that gorsoon is while gossoon is (ireland) a young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

gorsoon

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • gossoon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * gorsoon

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
  • * 1866 " 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 2003, p. 63:
  • *:‘He wants to be something he's not,’ he'd say. ‘He's fish, that gossoon , and he wants to be fowl.’