Question of the Day #951

Dear Abby: New hire is disappointed to be working as a gofer

From the headline of this article at the Lubbock Avalanche Journal.

  上記の文で、goferの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "gofer" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

〈米俗〉雑用係、使い走り◆【語源】go forのなまり

   

Answer

According to Merriam-Webster:

an employee whose duties include running errands

   

Examples

• David works as a gofer at an independent television production company.
• Some bosses see all workers as a cross between a gofer and a personal servant.
• He went on to a larger commercial-art studio, where he was a gofer and a delivery person.
• In its first sequence, a harried gofer named Manny Torres (played by Diego Calva) tries to transport an elephant into the Hollywood Hills for a big-shot producer’s party, a farcical task that ends with the elephant pooping on the camera lens—in a way, on the viewers themselves. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2022
• Dodd in 1961, first as a gofer and record vendor and eventually as a talent scout, engineer and producer for Dodd’s Studio One, a Jamaican hit factory in the early 1960s. — New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021

   

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