welsher

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I felt I should never trust myself again, if I turned welsher--that's the word, isn't it It's like Jephtha," I said.

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  1. 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. The welcher properly so called takes the money offered him to back a horse, but, when he has taken money enough from his dupes, departs from the scene of his labours, and trusts to his luck, a dyed wig, or a pair of false whiskers not to be recognised. All the Year Round.

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  • The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher." —  A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
  • 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. —  The Gypsies
  • Anyway, she seems to bulge in the right places; though how anyone so long-waisted as that can get themselves into such a rig without callin' for help is somethin' I passes up Well, I tows her into the boss's office, feelin' as mean as a welsher. —  Torchy
  • I felt I should never trust myself again, if I turned welsher--that's the word, isn't it It's like Jephtha," I said. —  The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
  • "Man, don't you know it Well, it's all your fault---this whole confounded row Oh, you're going to play welsher, are you?" —  The High School Left End Dick ; Co. Grilling on the Football Gridiron
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