gopher.
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
Meaning & usage
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
A Go programmer.
Where this word comes from
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.
Alternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”).
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