gopher

/ɡˈoʊfɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)
2. a native or resident of Minnesota
3. any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
4. burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
5. burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America

Synonyms for gopher

• goffer
• Minnesotan
• ground squirrel
• spermophile
• pocket gopher
• pouched rat
• gopher tortoise
• gopher turtle
• Gopherus polypemus

Words that rhyme with gopher

• loafer
• hoefer
• hofer
• ofer
• snouffer
• sofer
• stofer