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Lackey vs Gossoon - What's the difference?

lackey | gossoon |

As nouns the difference between lackey and gossoon

is that lackey is a footman, a liveried male servant while gossoon is (ireland) a young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

As a verb lackey

is to attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously.

lackey

English

Alternative forms

* (verb only)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A footman, a liveried male servant.
  • A fawning, servile follower; a lickspittle.

    • Derived terms

    * lackey caterpillar * lackey moth

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To attend, wait upon, serve obsequiously
  • * Milton
    • A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
  • (obsolete) To toady, play the flunky

    • References

    * "lackey." Online Etymology Dictionary. 2008

    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.’