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WELSHER (welsher)

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does welsher mean? 

WELSHER (noun)
  The noun WELSHER has 1 sense:

1. someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wagerplay

  Familiarity information: WELSHER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELSHER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

welcher; welsher

Hypernyms ("welsher" is a kind of...):

chiseler; chiseller; defrauder; gouger; grifter; scammer; swindler (a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud)

Derivation:

welsh (cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt)


 Context examples 


I say again that, if the ring has fallen low, it is not in the main the fault of the men who have done the fighting, but it lies at the door of the vile crew of ring-side parasites and ruffians, who are as far below the honest pugilist as the welsher and the blackleg are below the noble racehorse which serves them as a pretext for their villainies.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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