gofer

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
10
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈɡoʊfɚ/(US)

Definition of gofer

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)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 work except as secretaries and "go-fers".”
    “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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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.

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