gopher
A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
Noun
- 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 Golang 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...
Origin
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.
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camas pocket gopher gopher ball gopherlike gopher mob gopher plant gopher snake gopher spurge pocket gopher striped gopher
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”).
- 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...