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Gofer may also refer to a junior member of an organisation who generally receive the most vexing and thankless work. Law firms with a top-heavy management structure, having not enough junior lawyers to take care of menial yet necessary tasks, can be referred to as having "too many loafers and not enough gophers ".
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Gordon the Gopher is an English puppet gopher that appeared on Children's BBC between 1985 and 1987. [19] [20] Mac and Tosh from the Looney Tunes franchise, are a couple of extremely well mannered gophers. [21]
Gophers!, a British children's television programme "Gopher", real name Burl Smith, a character on TV show The Love Boat; Gopher (Winnie the Pooh), a character in Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh franchise
A dogsbody, dog's body, or less commonly dog robber is someone who does menial or drudge work. [1] Originally, in the British Royal Navy, a dogsbody was a semi-sarcastic colloquialism for a junior officer or midshipman. [1]
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The Aramaic Targum Onkelos, considered by many Jews to be an authoritative translation of the Hebrew scripture, renders this word as qadros, ' cedar '. The Syriac Peshitta translates this word as arqa, ' box ' (boxwood). [4] Many modern English translations favor cypress (otherwise referred to in Biblical Hebrew as berosh).
The name was coined by Anklesaria as a play on several meanings of the word "gopher". [7] The University of Minnesota mascot is the gopher , [ 8 ] a gofer is an assistant who "goes for" things, and a gopher burrows through the ground to reach a desired location.