trougher means A greedy person. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.
Etymology
From trough + -er, due to comparisons between greedy people and pigs with their snouts in the trough.
noun
- 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."”
- (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.”