trougher

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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 same thing, or something similar."
• "Her appetite has definitely gone down, she's the classic bored trougher, but here there's so much to do she can sometimes forget to eat."
• "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."