sharpy vs gopher

sharpy and gopher both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
sharpy	Yes	No	No	No
gopher	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gopher is a hyponym of sharpy; that is, gopher is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than sharpy:

Other hyponyms of sharpy include goffer.

sharpy (noun)	gopher (noun)
a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games	burrowing rodent of the family Geomyidae having large external cheek pouches; of Central America and southwestern North America
an alert and energetic person	burrowing edible land tortoise of southeastern North America
	any of various terrestrial burrowing rodents of Old and New Worlds; often destroy crops
	a zealously energetic person (especially a salesman)