gofer

1. 1.

   an employee whose duties include running errands

   Broaderemployee

Other forms of gofer

plural

gofers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about gofer

What does gofer mean?

gofer means "an employee whose duties include running errands".

How many syllables are in gofer?

gofer has 2 syllables: go-fer. The stress falls on "go".

Is gofer a common word?

gofer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.