Terms vs Gossoon - What's the difference?
terms | gossoon |
(Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
* 1866 " in: Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts
*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.’
As nouns the difference between terms and gossoon
is that terms is while gossoon is (ireland) a young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.gossoon
English
Alternative forms
* gorsoonNoun
(en noun)- ..and a whole army of gorsoons'' were hunting a poor dog with a ''kittle tied to his tail.