Gossoon
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A boy; a male servant.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A boy; a servant.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A young
boy
, a servant boy; a
lackey
.
Word Usage
"Three times a week a "gossoon" ran with the post to Oughterard, thirty-six miles away, where the nearest coach passed."