Trougher

Quick meaning: Trougher is a noun meaning (by extension) (chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. Alternative spelling of troffer.
2. (chiefly British) A greedy person.

Example Sentences

Humza is the trougher's trougher.

Her appetite has definitely gone down, she's the classic bored trougher, but here there's so much to do she can sometimes forget to eat.

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."

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.

Word Forms

• troughers

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