Meaning

2 senses
  1. (UK)A greedy person.

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

Origin

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

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

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Forms

plural: troughers
Singulartrougher
Pluraltroughers

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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