English Explanatory Dictionary

trougher

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A greedy person.
  2. (chiefly British) A careerist politician, especially one representing the Scottish National Party.
  3. Alternative spelling of troffer.

Word forms

trougher troughers

Etymology

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

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on T Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary