gofer
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gofer
- /ˈɡoʊfɚ/ US
Sounds like gopher
Where it comes from
From go + fer (pronunciation spelling of 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.
noun gofers · go-fer · gopher
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A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
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 wo
Similar: dogsbody
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noun worker
| Español | mandadero |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | パシリ pashiri |
| Português | moço de recados |
| Deutsch | Aushilfskraft |
| Русский | ма́льчик на побегушках málʹčik na pobeguškax |
Talk about this word "gofer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gofer. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gofer. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gofer "gofer." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gofer.Cite this
@misc{gofer_2026,
title = {gofer},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/gofer},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
