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Gofer vs Goffer - What's the difference?

gofer | goffer |

As a noun gofer

is a worker who runs errands; an errand boy.

As a verb goffer is

to make wavy; to crimp.

gofer

English

(wikipedia gofer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) A worker who runs errands; an errand boy.
  • * 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.

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    * dogsbody

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    goffer

    English

    Verb

  • To make wavy; to crimp.
  • * 1985 , , A Maggot :
  • On the back of a chair beside the bed sits perched above the discarded chip hat something apparently precious and taken from the opened bundle on the floor: a flat white cambric hat, its fronts and sides goffered into little flutes.

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