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trougher
noun 3
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good, legendary
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noun
1
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."
He turned with twelve portions, much to the delight of umpire Paul Gibb, who subsequently asked for all the spare ‘official’ lunches to be passed on to him. A legendary trougher – he could eat for England any time – Gibb got through most of them before the end of the interval.
2
(chiefly British) 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.
Many of the critical quotations about Rolnik's role in the UN come from Conservative MPs: "The aid budget is a way in which poor people from Britain pay for the lifestyle of rich people in developing countries. We are having to pay taxes to put this international trougher up in a four-star hotel.
3
Alternative spelling of troffer.
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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."
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He turned with twelve portions, much to the delight of umpire Paul Gibb, who subsequently asked for all the spare ‘official’ lunches to be passed on to him. A legendary trougher – he could eat for Eng
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Forget the fact I was playing for England at cricket: I was also an Olympic-standard trougher, and so I would order big steaks, burgers, whatever I fancied, and Blacky thought nothing of ordering the
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