gossoon

noun

1. (Ireland)A young boy, a servant boy; a lackey.

   “..and a whole army of gorsoons were hunting a poor dog with a kittle tied to his tail.”

   “"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."”

   “‘He wants to be something he's not,’ he'd say. ‘He's fish, that gossoon, and he wants to be fowl.’”