gazoon
(Northern Ireland) A young farm boy.
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(Northern Ireland) A young farm boy.
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(nonce) A close body of men.
: "[...] devil don't it subtract a bit before the thing goes skylarkin' as it will before—500–550—say this is no place for a gazoon that wants to see Father O'Houlihan before he kicks the bucket," and Pat strode off wit…
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An Irish English term for a young boy, especially one employed as a servant or general helper. The word has a nostalgic, rural Irish flavour and appears frequently in 19th and early 20th-century Irish literature. It is warm in register, often evoking the hardworking boys of agrarian Ireland.
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