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 vowed I was a low down swindler and a "welsher," whatever that is.
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
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
"Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
