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
The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.
From Under Two Flags by Ouida
"Quite a plunge on a long shot, with a welsher like Collator! making the book," commented Loring.
From Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress by George Randolph Chester
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 Perceval Gibbon
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