trougher noun2 •(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 •(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 formstroughers
