Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A swindling better or book-maker on a race-track; one who absconds without paying his losses, or what is due to others on account of money deposited with him for betting. Also written
welcher .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Slang, Eng. One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK Alternative spelling of
welcher .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager
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Examples
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"Make me!" retorted the "welsher," defiant in his stout-built square strength, and ready to brazen the matter out.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Meanwhile the "welsher," driven off the course by a hooting and indignant crowd, shaking the water from his clothes, with bitter oaths, and livid with a deadly passion at his exile from the harvest-field of his lawless gleanings, went his way, with a savage vow of vengeance against the "d---- d dandy," the "Guards 'swell," who had shown him up before the world as the scoundrel he was.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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One of them was the "welsher," Ben Davis; the other, a smaller, quieter man, with a keen, vivacious Hebrew eye and an olive-tinted skin, a
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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Mark, I appreciate your passion, but "welsher" is an ethnic slur.
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"welsher," heated, eager, flushed with triumph, and glowing with a gloating malignity.
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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"Mark, I appreciate your passion, but" welsher "is an ethnic slur.
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Now, are you a welsher as well as a proven plagiarist?
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He would look at home beating up some welsher in an alley or sitting in a bar with sawdust on the floor.
All Together Dead Harris, Charlaine 2007
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Magnus Spadebeard, korsets krosser, welsher perfyddye.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Tape oaf that saw foull and sew wrong, welsher, you suck of
Finnegans Wake 2006
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