Meaning

5 senses
  1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).

    Erdhörnchen, Ziesel, Zieselmaus

    су́сликsúslik

    ховра́хxovráx, ховрашо́кxovrašók

    burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America

  2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).

  3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).

  4. A gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus).

  5. (slang)A Go programmer.

Examples

7 sentences
  1. Tom caught a gopher.

    ruТом поймал суслика.

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  2. Gophers are cute.

    deErdhörnchen sind süß.

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  3. The gopher's days were numbered.

    Дні ховраха були полічені.

    ruДни суслика были сочтены.

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  4. The gophers here are so annoying.

    ruСуслики здесь такие надоедливые.

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  5. Growing a garden here is practically impossible because of the abundance of gophers.

    ruВырастить сад здесь практически невозможно из-за обилия сусликов.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
small burrowing rodent:
Русский
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small burrowing rodent:
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Origin

Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the

Perhaps an adaptation of Cajun French gaufre (literally “honeycomb, waffle”), based on the analogy of holes in the ground to the indentations in a honeycomb or a waffle (doublet of waffle). Alternatively, from Muskogean.

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Forms

plural: gophers
Singulargopher
Pluralgophers

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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