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▪ I. gofer1 dial.|ˈgəʊfə(r)|
Forms: 8–9 gofer, 9 gopher, gaufer, gaufre.
[a. F. gaufre (earlier also goffre, gofre) honeycomb, thin cake; ultimately of LG. origin: see wafer and waffle.]
a. A thin batter-cake on which a honeycomb pattern is stamped by the iron plates (see b) between which it is baked.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 165 To make Gofers. Beat three eggs well, with three spoonfuls of flour, and a little salt. c1845C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xxi. 109 Having eaten an unlimited quantity of ‘gaufres’. 1847–78Halliwell, Gofer, a species of tea-cake of an oblong form, made of flour, milk, eggs, and currants, baked on an iron made expressly for the purpose, called a gofering iron, and divided into square compartments. Linc. 1853C. Brontë Villette I. viii. 142 Regaled with gaufres and vin blanc. 1876Whitby Gloss., Gaufers, tea-cakes of the muffin sort, square, and stamped like net-work with the ‘gaufering-irons’. 1883P. Robinson Sinners & Saints i. 14 Here, too, in Chicago, I found a man selling ‘gophers’... I do not know the American name for this vanish-into-nothing sort of pastry.
b. Comb.: gofer-irons, -tongs, also gofering-iron (see quots. 1847–78 and 1876 above): the implement in which ‘gofers’ are baked.
1877Holderness Gloss., *Gaufre-irons, a bivalved iron mould with long handles, in which gaufres are baked on the fire.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 165 Make your *gofer tongs hot, rub them with fresh butter, fill the bottom part of your tongs, and clap the top upon, then turn them, and when a fine brown on both sides, put them in a dish.
▪ II. gofer2 slang (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.).|ˈgəʊfə(r)|
Also go-fer, gopher.
[f. vbl. phr. to go for (go v. 58), influenced by gopher n.1; cf. twofer.]
Someone who runs errands, esp. one employed for such duties on a film set or in an office (see quot. 1972); a general dogsbody.
1967J. O'Hara The Instrument i 65 ‘Teddy's used to being my gofer.’ ‘Your what?’ said Ellis Watson. ‘You never worked in radio. A gofer goes for coffee.’ 1968W. Safire New Lang. Politics 167/1 Just after John Lindsay took office as New York's Mayor in 1966, a minor controversy arose when it was charged that policemen were being used as ‘gophers’—to bring coffee into the Lindsay offices. 1970Time 28 Sept. 66/2 She plays an inadvertent career girl, jilted by the rounder she put through medical school, and working as a ‘gofer’ at a Minneapolis TV station. 1972Telegraph (Brisbane) 8 Mar. 30/4 It has got to be charm all the way for the high-powered diplomats at the U.S. State Department, should their secretaries courteously offer to fetch them cups of coffee. For..a secretary is not a ‘go-fer’, as Americans term those who ‘go for’ coffee, cigarettes or sandwiches at the behest of the boss. 1975Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Nov. 12/1 He finally gave the job to Geary, the team go-fer,..the man who..had never been given a chance to show his stuff. 1978J. Krantz Scruples x. 285 A producer was somebody on a studio payroll who was used chiefly as liaison between the studio heads and the director, a glorified gofer. 1978M. Puzo Fools Die xlvi. 488 His assistant..was really a gopher for Simon but tried to give us some of his own ideas on what should be in the script. 1981Listener 22 Jan. 124/1 Burt Lancaster plays Lou, an ex-bodyguard and gofer for the mob, still running the bedraggled tail of the numbers racket. 1982Underground Grammarian Nov. 8/2 The typesetter, the printer, a few untitled gofers, and even the assistant circulation manager, were led into ineptitude and disorder a couple of months ago.
Add:b. In form gopher. Baseball. Usu. as gopher ball. A pitch that is or can be hit for a run, esp. a home run.
1932Baseball Mag. Oct. 496/3 When a pitcher ‘makes one too good’,..he throws a ‘gopher’. They hit it and ‘go fer’ two, three, or four satchels. 1962Washington Daily News 1 June 63/2 Ralph Terry of the New York Yankees and Phil Regan of the Detroit Tigers are running head and head today for the unwanted gopher ball championship of the major leagues. 1968R. Coover Universal Baseball Assoc. v. 148 Partridge was throwing gopher balls and his..teammates were fielding like a bunch of bush-leaguers. 1986Internat. Herald Tribune 22 Sept. 5/5 Any informed student of the game knows that no pitcher wants to go down in the record books as having been the pitcher who served up a record-breaking gopher ball.
▪ III. gofer
var. of goffer. |