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prettygoodwordgossoon (go-SOON) - n. (Ireland, informal) a boy, especially a servant or lackey.
Or if you will, a lad. I don't know how current this is, but it shows up in a glossary of Dublin slang as meaning a foolish person esp. male. Shows up in Irish English around 1680, from Irish garsún, boy, from Anglo-Norman garçon, from Old French, where it meant servant, from Frankish, from the same Germanic root that gave us wretch, with the PIE sense of being driven.
---L.
Or if you will, a lad. I don't know how current this is, but it shows up in a glossary of Dublin slang as meaning a foolish person esp. male. Shows up in Irish English around 1680, from Irish garsún, boy, from Anglo-Norman garçon, from Old French, where it meant servant, from Frankish, from the same Germanic root that gave us wretch, with the PIE sense of being driven.
---L.
