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troughers

troughers is the plural of trougher.

Meaning of trougher

Noun

trougher (plural troughers)

  1. (UK) 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."1939, Harold Armitage, Early Man in Hallamshire, page 78
  2. (broadly) (chiefly UK) 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.1997, The Canadian Forum, volume 76, page 10

Questions about troughers

What is troughers the plural of?
Troughers is the plural of trougher.

Words near troughers in the dictionary

  1. trough valleys
  2. trough-shell
  3. trough-shells
  4. troughed
  5. trougher
  6. troughers
  7. troughful
  8. troughfuls
  9. troughing
  10. troughings
  11. troughless

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