gofer
noun/ˈɡoʊfɚ/US
Etymology
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.
Definitions
A worker who runs errands
A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
- More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for gofer. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA