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- [goh-fer]
- /ˈgoʊ fər/
- /ˈɡəʊ.fər/
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- [goh-fer]
- /ˈgoʊ fər/
Definitions of gofer word
- noun gofer an employee whose chief duty is running errands. 1
- noun gofer A person who runs errands, especially on a movie set or in an office. 1
- noun gofer errand-runner 1
- noun Definition of gofer in Technology (language) A lazy functional language designed by Mark Jones <[email protected]> at the Programming Research Group, Oxford, UK in 1991. It is very similar to Haskell 1.2. It has lazy evaluation, higher order functions, pattern matching, and type classes, lambda, case, conditional and let expressions, and wild card, "as" and irrefutable patterns. It lacks modules, arrays and standard classes. Gofer comes with an interpreter (in C), a compiler which compiles to C, documentation and examples. Unix Version 2.30 (1994-06-10) Mac_Gofer version 0.16 beta. Ported to Sun, Acorn Archimedes, IBM PC, Macintosh, Atari, Amiga. Version 2.30 added support for contexts in datatype and member function definitions, Haskell style arrays, an external function calling mechanism for gofc, an experimental implementation of Launchbury/Peyton Jones style lazy functional state threads, an experimental implementation of "do" notation for monad comprehensions. 1
- countable noun gofer A gofer is a person whose job is to do simple and rather boring tasks for someone. 0
- noun gofer an employee or assistant whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands 0
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Origin of gofer
First appearance:
before 1965 One of the 2% newest English words
1965-70; respelling of go for (verb phrase), with -er representing both vowel reduction in for and -er1
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gofer popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 70% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
gofer usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for gofer
noun gofer
- peon — a messenger, attendant, or orderly.
- grunt — to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
- scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- office boy — a person, traditionally a boy, employed in an office to run errands, do odd jobs, etc.
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