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
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
"And you're the man who called me a welsher!"
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
