gopher
nounUK /ˈɡəʊfə/ · US /ˈɡoʊfɚ/
Etymology 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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A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
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A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
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A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).
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A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Slang A Go 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.2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373:
- Derived terms
- camas pocket gopher, gopher apple, gopher ball, gopherlike, gopher mob, gopher plant, gopher plum, gopher snake, gopher spurge, pocket gopher, striped gopher
- Related terms
- gopher wood