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
The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher."
From A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by McCarthy, Justin
But I wasn't just a limpin', squintin' little welsher; I was something that could feel the meaning of things and the reason for them, just like you can feel 'eat and cold.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Gibbon, Perceval
He fought a welsher," pursued the Vicar, "just before riding in a race.
From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
