gofer

• go-fer, gopher

From go +‎ fer (for), as in “go for coffee” or “go for that document” etc. Possibly also a pun on the rodent gopher, animals known for both their vast tunneling and their hoarding activities.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡoʊfɚ/
• Homophone: gopher

gofer (plural gofers)

1. (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
   • 1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9:

     They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".

   • 2001, William Hairston, Passion and Politics:

     More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.

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Borrowed from English gopher, from Biblical Hebrew גֹּ֫פֶר (gōfer).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡofeɾ/ [ˈɡoː.fɛɾ], /ɡoˈfeɾ/ [ɡoˈfɛɾ]
  • IPA^(key): (more-native sounding) /ˈɡopeɾ/ [ˈɡoː.pɛɾ], (more-native sounding) /ɡoˈpeɾ/ [ɡoˈpɛɾ]
• Rhymes: -ofeɾ, (more-native sounding) -opeɾ, -eɾ
• Syllabification: go‧fer

gofer or gofér (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓᜉᜒᜇ᜔) (biblical)

1. gopher wood
   • 1905, Ang Dating Biblia, Genesis 6:14:

     Gumawa ka ng isang sasakyang kahoy na gofer; gagawa ka ng mga silid sa sasakyan, at iyong sisiksikan sa loob at sa labas ng sahing.

     Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.