gopher

名词 n.
/ˈɡəʊfə/    /ˈɡoʊfɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
  2. Alternative spelling of gofer (“worker who runs errands”). alt-of,alternative
    — 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 executive gopher named MacIntyre (because that sounds Scottish, yeah – played by Peter Riegert) to close the deal and get the pipeline pencilled in.
  3. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
  4. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
  5. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
  6. 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.

词形变化

gophers plural gauffre alternative gophers plural

词源

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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