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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Scot.

garson

an attendant, fr. F.

garçon

, OF.

gars

A boy; a servant.

[Ireland]

Noun.

A boy; a servant. [Not in use.]

gossoon ‎(plural gossoons)

(Ireland) A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.
- 1866 Patrick Kennedy, "Jack and His Comrades" 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.’