welsh

(wĕlsh, wĕlch) also welch (wĕlch)

intr.v. welshed, welsh·ing, welsh·es also welched or welch·ing or welch·es Informal

1. To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager: welsh on a bet.

2. To fail to fulfill an obligation.

[Origin unknown.]

welsh′er n.

Welsh

(wĕlsh, wĕlch)

adj.

Of or relating to Wales or its people, language, or culture.

1. The people of Wales.

2. The Celtic language of Wales. Also called Cymric.

[Middle English Walische, from Old English Wælisc, from Wealh, foreigner, Welshman, Celt, probably ultimately from a Celtic tribal name; akin to Latin Volcae, a confederation of Celtic tribes of the late first millennium bc, from a Celtic source perhaps akin to Welsh gwalch, hawk.]

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Noun

welsher - someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager

welcher

chiseler, chiseller, defrauder, grifter, scammer, swindler, gouger - a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

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There was a story of a nation of Welshers, that liv'd hereaway in the prairies, and how they came into the land afore the uneasy minded man, who first let in the Christians to rob the heathens of their inheritance, had ever dreamt that the sun set on a country as big as that it rose from.

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