welsh
verb (used without object)
to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt.
welsher
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a word derived from
welsh.
Example Sentences
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Not even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a swindler, a welsher, a cad, and a rogue.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
He gave the preference to the race-track. "—of a common welsher," he concluded.
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
But I wasn't just a limpin', squintin' little welsher; I was something that could feel the meaning of things and the reason for them, just like you can feel 'eat and cold.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
In fact, it is generally spoken of as the Costermonger’s race, at which a mere welsher is a comparatively respectable character, and every man in a good coat a swell.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
