Trougher

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A greedy person. British

    "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.""

  2. 2
    (chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party. broadly

    "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."

  3. 3
    Alternative spelling of troffer. alt-of, alternative

Example

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"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.""

Etymology

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

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