go-ferとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From go +‎ fer (for), as in “go for coffee” or “go for that document” etc. Possibly also a pun on the rodent gopher, animals known for both their vast tunneling and their hoarding activities.

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡoʊfɚ/
• Homophone: gopher

名詞

gofer (plural gofers)

1. (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
   • 1989 December 3, Pam Mitchell, Ronnie Gilbert, “Carrying On The Honorable Tradition Of 'Protest Music'”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 9:

     They were learning to do what in all my years in the music business I never saw — which was women running a record company, women producing concerts, women learning to be engineers, women moving into this absolutely all-male enclave. You never saw a woman in any of those positions, in any of that work except as secretaries and "go-fers".

   • 2001, William Hairston, Passion and Politics:

     More and more people agreed to help with the mailings, the hand-distribution of flyers, and telephonings. Others agreed to be gofers and fetchers.

同意語

• dogsbody

Further reading

• gofer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gofer”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Forge, forge