Pronunciation guide

How to pronounce trough

TROF - one syllable; the '-ough' sounds like 'off'

US/tɹɒf/

tɹɒf

UK/tɹɒf/

tɹɒf

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Common mistake

The '-ough' is 'off' - 'trof', not 'trow' (like 'cow') or 'troth'.

What “trough” means

A long, narrow container, open on top, for feeding or watering animals.

Any similarly shaped container.

In a sentence

  • One of Harriet's chores was to slop the pigs' trough each morning and evening.
  • Ernest threw his paint brushes into a kind of trough he had fashioned from sheet metal that he kept in the sink.

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