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gopher en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɡəʊfə/ (UK)
• /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ (US)

Etymology

Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the analogy of holes in the ground to the indentations in a honeycomb or a waffle (doublet of waffle). Alternatively, from Muskogean.

Meanings

1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
4. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
5. (slang) A Go programmer.
   • I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here. 2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373:

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Deriveds

gopherlike · camas pocket gopher · gopher spurge · gopher plant · striped gopher · gopher apple · gopher plum · gopher mob · gopher ball · gopher snake · pocket gopher · thirteen-striped gopher

Descendants

gòfer · goffer

Relateds

gopher wood

Translations (47)

is gúlrotta (small burrowing rodent) · es tuza (small burrowing rodent) · cmn 囊地鼠 (small burrowing rodent) · nv naʼazísí (small burrowing rodent) · es topo (small burrowing rodent) · uk ховра́х (small burrowing rodent) · de Ziesel (small burrowing rodent) · fy goffer (small burrowing rodent) · mk стоболка (small burrowing rodent) · nn Geomyidae) (small burrowing rodent) · fr gaufre à poche (small burrowing rodent) · yua baj (small burrowing rodent) · nl wangzakrat (small burrowing rodent) · ar غَوْفَر (small burrowing rodent) · fi taskurotta (small burrowing rodent) · cmn 囊鼠 (small burrowing rodent) · de Erdhörnchen (small burrowing rodent) · unm mehëmoxkchalhès (small burrowing rodent) · es geómido (small burrowing rodent) · sv kindpåsråtta (small burrowing rodent) · sk syseľ (small burrowing rodent) · pt geômis (small burrowing rodent) · uk ховрашо́к (small burrowing rodent) · de Zieselmaus (small burrowing rodent) · ja ハタリス (small burrowing rodent) · nl goffer (small burrowing rodent) · hu ürge (small burrowing rodent) · de Geomyidae) (small burrowing rodent) · ja ジリス (small burrowing rodent) · ja 掘鼠 (small burrowing rodent) · ru су́слик (small burrowing rodent) · nb kinnposerotte (small burrowing rodent) · ba йомран (small burrowing rodent) · pdt Stapmus (small burrowing rodent) · fr gaufre (small burrowing rodent) · nl zakrat (small burrowing rodent) · sh gofer (small burrowing rodent) · pdt Ieedkota (small burrowing rodent) · ca gòfer (small burrowing rodent) · no jordekorn (small burrowing rodent) · pl suseł (small burrowing rodent) · cs sysel (small burrowing rodent) · es taltuza (small burrowing rodent) · cy llygoden ddaear (small burrowing rodent) · hu tasakospatkány (small burrowing rodent) · be су́слік (small burrowing rodent) · fr géomys (small burrowing rodent)

gopher en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈɡəʊfə/ (UK)
• /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ (US)

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”).
   alt of gofer
   • Crackpot Texan oil magnate Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster) gets the idea that a small Scottish fishing village would be a marvellous acquisition for his so-rich-it-makes-you-sick company, Knox Oil and Gas, so he sends an executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in. 2015 March 12, Bill Mann, “The film that makes me cry: Local Hero”, in The Guardian:

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