trough

Signification

Noun

1. A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.
2. Any similarly shaped container.
3. Any similarly shaped container.
4. A short, narrow canal designed to hold water until it drains or evaporates.
5. (colloquial) An undivided metal urinal (plumbing fixture)
6. A gutter under the eaves of a building; an eaves trough.
7. A channel for conveying water or other farm liquids (such as milk) from place to place by gravity; any ‘U’ or ‘V’ cross-sectioned irrigation channel.
8. A long, narrow depression between waves or ridges; the low portion of a wave cycle.
9. A low turning point or a local minimum of a business cycle.
10. A linear atmospheric depression associated with a weather front.

Verb

To eat in a vulgar style, as if from a trough.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɹɒf/

Étymologie

From Middle English trogh, from Old English troh, trog (“a trough, tub, basin, vessel for containing liquids or other materials”), from Proto-West Germanic *trog, from Proto-Germanic *trugą, *trugaz, from Proto-Indo-European *drukós, enlargement of *dóru (“tree”).
See also West Frisian trôch, Dutch trog, German Trog, Danish trug, Swedish tråg; also Middle Irish drochta (“wooden basin”), Old Armenian տարգալ (targal, “ladle, spoon”). More at tree.