Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Variant of welsh.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one.
- v. To fail to repay a small debt.
- v. To fail to fulfill an obligation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. rare See welsh.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
Etymologies
- Related to welsh. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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“In common parlance and at the risk of insulting Bryn Terfel it wishes to welch on its debt.”
The Huffington Post: Ivan Katz: The Philadelphia Orchestra's Unfortunate Bankruptcy Filing
“I may have to try the tinnieee hinnieee jig and is that a paris landing TN. sweatshirt captain steve welch is wareing or is there a paris landing on lake shelbyville, I've never been there?”
“Here are a full set of videos (the first one is below, several more at the link for the complete set) of the New Moon DVD release party featuring Mike welch, Christian Serratos, and Justin Chon.”
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“ShelbyC says: yankev: This is about letting the father welch on an agreement and then saying that “freedom or religion” is a reason to let him out of a promise he regrets having made, even though that promise did not conflict with his religion when made.”
“This is about letting the father welch on an agreement and then saying that “freedom or religion” is a reason to let him out of a promise he regrets having made, even though that promise did not conflict with his religion when made.”
“This is about letting the father welch on an agreement and then saying that “freedom or religion” is a reason to let him out of a promise he regrets having made, even though that promise did not conflict with his religion whenmade.”
“Since the combination of transaction costs and welch expectation could easily exceed $1.50, we see that you might not take this bet unless you believed the true odds were more like 500-1.”
“It's true, as Bini Smaghi and his colleagues claim, that investors don't lend to countries that welch on their loans – but the informal embargo lasts for months.”
The Guardian: Is defaulting really 'political suicide'? | Aditya Chakrabortty
“Likewise, the armies of lawyers, claims adjusters, and so on whose job amounts to saving money for their employer by lying or figuring out ways to welch on obligations their employers have entered into are taking actions that in a private context everyone would agree is sinful.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘welch’.
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Lying, cheating, and stealing
subterfuge, chicanery, skulduggery, pilfer, purloin, bamboozle, bilk, gyp, hoodwink, swindle, hoax, dupe and 28 more...
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
suppurate, inveterate, douche, Constantinople, zyzygy, polyglot, serendipitous, vivisection, solypsis, conflagration, instupituous, fecundity and 52 more...
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Punlandia
The various peoples of Punlandia and New Punlandia.
TRYING TO AVOID RACISM OR STEREOTYPING, really.phlegmish, sweetish, polish, finish, germane, more-rockin', rushin', tie, check, danish, dutch, neitherlands and 16 more...
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Gambling and Gaming
baize, tesserarian, ambidexter, blue chip, one-armed bandit, monte-bank, dicing-house, croupier, hazard, hazardry, gord, junket and 68 more...
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