welcher
- a word derived from welch.
Example Sentences
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Post me for a welcher if she wasn't rigged out in the same kind of a chorus costume that she wore when we saw her last, over there in It'ly!
From Shorty McCabe by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
He'll hound you in the Merry Tattler until the whole town knows you're a welcher, and not a soul would speak to you.
From The Avalanche by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
Harland had been the welcher in the Copper Pool and Barker had suspected him.
From The Black Eagle Mystery by Bonner, Geraldine
But he was a welcher, and I knew it.
From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell
But do it like a good sport—like a good loser—and not be a whiner or welcher.
From Epistles from Pap: Letters from the man known as 'The Will Rogers of Indiana' by Hay, Douglas (Douglas N.)
