trougher

noun

Etymology

From trough + -er, due to comparisons between greedy people and pigs with their snouts in the trough.

1
A greedy person.
- As Abel Magwitch would have said, he was "a heavy grubber"; or as a Yorkshireman, with a similar disregard for elegance, would express it, "a good trougher."
- Forget the fact I was playing for England at cricket: I was also an Olympic-standard trougher, and so I would order big steaks, burgers, whatever I fancied, and Blacky thought nothing of ordering the same thing, or something similar.
2
(chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish…
(chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party.
- And according to an insistent story, Vince MacLean, a formal provincial Liberal leader and prodigious trougher running in Sydney-Victoria, was slapped in the face by a woman at the door.
- Humza is the trougher's trougher.
Alternative spelling of troffer.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA