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Definition: Gofer |
GoferNoun1. An employee whose duties include running errands. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Gofer |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Auxiliary | Aide-de-camp, secretary, clerk, associate, marshal; right-hand, right-hand man, Friday, girl Friday, man Friday, gopher, gofer; candle-holder, bottle-holder; handmaid; servant; puppet, cat's-paw, jackal. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Gofer |
| Specialty definitions using "gofer": Haskell User's Gofer System, HUGS ♦ Quicksort ♦ Ratatosk. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Gofer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Welsh (overflow of well, rill). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Gofer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gofer" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "gofer": Haskell User's Gofer System. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gofer | 36 |
gofer snake | 5 |
animal gofer | 4 |
as bon bongiovi citys gofer john jon jovi legendary money much new paid per power recording station studio week work york | 3 |
gofer trap | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "gofer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | вафлена кора. (various references) | |
German | mädchen für alles (dogsbody, handyman, maid-of-all-work). (various references) | |
Hungarian | vafli, recés ostya, ostya (wafer), fullajtár (outrider), alacsony beosztású személy. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ofergay.(various references) | |
Romanian | fagure (comb). (various references) | |
Russian | мальчик на побегушках (devil). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "gofer": gofers. (additional references) | |
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"Gofer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Gafer, gaufer, gefe, gfe, giffer, gifter, glofe, goafer, gober, Goce, Gocek, goder, goef, goeff, Goehr, gofa, gofe, Goffer, gofor, goier, goler, gooder, goofe, goofer, goomer, gorer, goser, Goter, gover, goxe, goxer, goyer, gozer, guef, gufa, Gufarov, gufe, guffbry, Jufer, ofer, ogofau. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: forge. | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-g-o-r" | |
-1 letter: ergo, fore, froe, frog, goer, gore, ogre. | |
-2 letters: ego, erg, fer, foe, fog, for, fro, gor, ore, ref, reg, roe. | |
-3 letters: ef, er, go, oe, of, or, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-g-o-r" | |
+1 letter: fogger, forage, forego, forged, forger, forges, forget, gofers, goffer, golfer. | |
+2 letters: fagoter, firedog, flogger, foggers, foggier, foraged, forager, forages, foregut, foreign, foreleg, forgave, forgers, forgery, forgets, forgive, forgoer, forgoes, forgone, frogeye, frogged, frogmen, fromage, goffers, golfers, goofier, reforge. | |
+3 letters: defogger, fagoters, filmgoer, firedogs, floggers, floorage, florigen, footgear, foragers, foregoer, foregoes, foregone, foreguts, forelegs, forewing, forgiven, forgiver, forgives, forgoers, forjudge, frogeyed, frogeyes, froggier, froglike, fromages, frontage, frottage, goffered, leapfrog, offering, reforged, reforges, refought, unforged. | |
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