gofer

variants or gopher

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gofer Detailing his gofer duties today to the court, Kaplan is known to have left Combs’ employ after a year, in some part due to the violence he is said to have seen. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 21 May 2025 James also worked as a gofer on the Harry Potter sets, as well as on the set of The Da Vinci Code (2006). Julia Emmanuele, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2025 Take his role in Nickel Boys as a seemingly harmless gofer who turns out to be capable of shocking violence. Nate Jones, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025 While gopher tortoises can be encountered in abundance during a visit to the park, guests can also marvel at its longleaf pine forests, with bird species like the downy woodpecker and red-breasted nuthatch found flitting from tree to tree. Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gofer
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gofer
Noun
  • The Dia browser, a simpler option that allows people to chat with an AI assistant about multiple browser tabs at once, became available in beta in June.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Though the pair eventually found employment—Kornfeind as a trade compliance specialist and Raines as an administrative assistant at their alma mater—these accounts of the gauntlet facing recent college graduates are far from unique.
    Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Having progressed from bottle washing and being a general dogsbody to a youth strength and conditioning coach, Bunce served as Southampton’s head of athletic development between 2011 and 2014, working closely with youngsters such as Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Luke Shaw.
    Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Mercedes is everybody’s dogsbody, at home and at work.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • But the ringer is Michael Cera, as Norwegian tutor Bjørn Lund, employed as an all-purpose factotum by the shady, swaggering, death-defying entrepreneur played by Del Toro.
    Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
  • Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry factotum and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Jackson hoped that the exhibition would counter the misconception that medieval women were universally downtrodden drudges.
    Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 10 July 2025
  • The corporate laborers of the industrial age were drudges, and might have needed the scaffolding of managerial hierarchies to make widgets in bulk.
    Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • These cabanas fit up to 12 guests and come with shaded seating, towels, a personal safe, and a dedicated attendant to keep the food and drinks flowing.
    Martie Bowser, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Along with Jay comes an entourage of attendants, among them his manager, Ron Sukenick (Adam Sandler); his publicist, Liz (Laura Dern); and his hair and makeup person, Phoebe (Emily Mortimer, who co-wrote the script with Baumbach).
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The 1990s Father Ted comedy for the BBC centered on three misfit priests and their housekeepers on a remote Irish island.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2025
  • The children's longtime nanny, Maria Turrion Borrallo, and housekeepers will likely stay in smaller properties nearby.
    Stephanie Petit, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025

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“Gofer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gofer. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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