Home › Words › G › gauffregauffregauffre means A gopher, especially the pocket gopher.EtymologySee gopher.nounA gopher, especially the pocket gopher.e.g.“There, too, may be seen the “barking-wolf” and the “swift fox.” It is the favourite home of the marmots, and the gauffres or sand-rats; and there, too, the noblest of animals, the horse, runs wild.” — 1854, Thomas Mayne Reid, chapter 1, in The Young Voyageurs:A waffle.e.g.“It had the same laxness in texture that all organic structures seem to have upon the moon; it tasted rather like a gauffre or a damp meringue, but in no way was it disagreeable.” — 1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published 1901, →OCLC, page 150:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.gaufre 74% match — A waffle (flat pastry). vs gauffre →gopherlike 63% match — Resembling or characteristic of a gopher; in the manner of a gopher. vs gauffre →squaffle 58% match — A slice of squash impressed with a grid pattern in the manner of a waffle. vs gauffre →moudiewort 58% match — A mole (the animal). vs gauffre →grundsow 55% match — A groundhog, a woodchuck. vs gauffre →goober 55% match — A peanut. vs gauffre →gofer 55% match — A worker who runs errands; an errand boy. vs gauffre →earthhog 54% match — An aardvark. vs gauffre →