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Word entry · 6 letters

gopher

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"Pocket burrower"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /ˈɡəʊfə/Part of speech nounSorted eghoprStarts with GEnds with R1 cluesCommon crossword word
1G2O3P4H5E6R

Definitions

  1. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.
  • I'm not at all advocating for any Gophers to switch to Haskell—there are far too many reasons to keep coding and deploying Go solutions to address here.

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