trougher

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A greedy person. UK
    — 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. (chiefly UK) 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. Alternative spelling of troffer. alt-of,alternative

词形变化

troughers plural

词源

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