gaufre

honeycomb; waffle (flat pastry)

From Middle French gaufre, from Old French walfre, from Frankish *wāfilu, *wāfilā or Middle Dutch wafele, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wēbilǭ, *wēbilō, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”). Cognate with English waffle. Related also to German Wabe (“honeycomb”).

gopher

From Louisiana or Canadian French, from sense 1 (“honeycomb”), said to be a reference to their burrows.