“The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.”
— falsely (but amusingly) attributed to George W. Bush
“Entrepreneur” meaning “undertaker”. (As in, “one who undertakes”, not “one who runs a funeral home”).
I don’t understand the question. I don’t know any words that are pronounced “showfor”. Shofar comes the closest but it’s spelled exactly as it’s pronounced and I have a feeling the OP isn’t refering to a religous object. It could be “chauffeur” like many are guessing, but in that case the OP would have made more sense as “show furr”. Scratch that; still makes no sense.
I think “showfor” in the thread title is spelled correctly. I heard it repeatedly in the '80s. It’s from Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer”.
Showfor me
I will showfor you
Thank you. That derivation has baffled me from a young age.
Our OP the person is now deservedly long gone, but the OP he (99% likely a he) left behind has at least done something useful. Thanks to you.
One might say it… Chafed? 
While Shofar is pronounced “show-FAR” in Hebrew and often in English, I’ve also heard English-speakers call it a “SHOW-fur”.
Indeed. It chafed to the point that I refused to use the term just because it annoyed me that it made no sense. An odd little linguistic burr that somehow got stuck under my saddle where it caused outsized irritation.
The good news is that I very, very rarely had reason to talk about food service keep-warm gizmos, so the term rarely bubbled up to my conscious.
Seeing the thread title, I can’t help thinking of the old backward golf saying “doughfor putt, showfor drive”.