gofer

[goh-fer] /ˈgoʊ fər/

noun, Slang.

an employee whose chief duty is running errands.

Also, go-fer, gopher.

Origin

1965-70; respelling of go for (verb phrase), with -er representing both vowel reduction in for and -er¹

Can be confused

gofer, gopher.

Examples from the web for gofer

My role at the firm was-not to put too fine a point on it-that of professional gofer.

British Dictionary definitions for gofer

gofer

/ˈɡəʊfə/

noun

(slang, mainly US & Canadian) an employee or assistant whose duties include menial tasks such as running errands

Word Origin

C20: originally US: alteration of go for

Word Origin and History for gofer

"errand-runner," 1956, American English coinage from go for (coffee, spare parts, etc.), with a pun on gopher.

Slang definitions & phrases for gofer

gofer

noun

An employee who is expected to serve and cater to others; a low-ranking subordinate: running the robo machine and acting as a receptionist, secretary, and general go-for/ attractive go-fers for executive editor Frank Waldrop

[1967+; gofor, an underworld term for ''dupe, sucker,'' is found by the 1920s and is probably semantically related]

gofer in Technology

language
A lazy functional language designed by Mark Jones 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.
Latest version: HUGS.
["Introduction to Gofer 2.20", M.P. Jones.]
[The implementation of the Gofer functional programming system, Mark P. Jones, Research Report YALEU/DCS/RR-1030, Yale University, Department of Computer Science, May 1994. FTP: nebula.cs.yale.edu/pub/yale-fp/reports].
(https://cs.nott.ac.uk/Department/Staff/mpj/).
FTP Yale (ftp://nebula.cs.yale.edu/), FTP Glasgow (ftp://ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk/), FTP Chalmers (ftp://ftp.cs.chalmers.se/pub/haskell/gofer/).
(1995-02-14)