welsher
Example Sentences
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Not even a shipment of California smog had arrived on the prevailing westerlies, and Baltimore Mayor Theodore McKeldin, 66, might have been tempted to think that Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, 57, was a welsher.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a swindler, a welsher, a cad, and a rogue.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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.
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland
He fought a welsher," pursued the Vicar, "just before riding in a race.
From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He was a retail welsher; he lacked the nerve for sweeping enterprises.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
