Welsh

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To fail to fulfill an obligation.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
  • n. The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
  • n. The natives or inhabitants of Wales.
  • v. To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track.
  • v. To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Foreign. See welshnut.
  • Relating or pertaining to Wales (a titular principality and a part of the island of Great Britain, opposite the southern part of Ireland), or to its people or its indigenous Cymric language
  • n. Collectively, as a plural word with the definite article, the people of Wales, or the members of the Cymric race indigenous to Wales. They were ruled by petty princes, and maintained their independence of the English till 1282–3.
  • n. The language of Wales or of the Welsh.
  • To cheat or practise cheating by betting or taking money as a stake on a horse-race, and running off without settling.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a native or resident of Wales
  • n. a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales
  • v. cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt
  • adj. of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language
  • n. a Celtic language of Wales
  • Equivalent
    welsh hook   
    Verb Form
    welshed    welshes    welshing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    European    bos taurus    oxen    cattle    cows    kine    cheat    rip off    chisel    brittanic   
    Variant
    welch   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    back out    jib    weaken    funk    crawfish   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Welch    belch    felch    squelch    welch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    after-work    hair    corgi    ernudder    peripuberal    cherrywood    jedge    cottontail    freezin    herse'f