gopher

What it means

1. A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).
2. A ground squirrel (Marmotinae spp.).
3. A gopher tortoise (Gopherus spp.).

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.

2017, Lex Sheehan, Learning Functional Programming in Go, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 373

Where it comes from

1. Muskogean
2. Cajun Frenchgaufre
3. Englishgopher

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.