welsher
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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
"Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
Well, I tows her into the boss's office, feelin' as mean as a welsher.
From Torchy by George Brehm
"Make me!" retorted the "welsher," defiant in his stout-built square strength, and ready to brazen the matter out.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
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