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welsher

/welsh, welch/US // wɛlʃ, wɛltʃ //UK // (wɛlʃ) //

韋斯勒,韋斯爾,韋氏,韋爾斯特

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  1. 1

    Informal: Sometimes Offensive.

    • : to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you?
    • : to go back on one's word: He welshed on his promise to help in the campaign.

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Examples

  • Tishani Doshi is a Welsh-Gujarati poet, novelist, and dancer.

  • This farm, set in the majestic green Welsh hills, turned out to the inspiration they needed.

  • Later, Welsh would help build Ruffle, a Flash emulator that can be downloaded as a desktop application or a browser extension.

  • As a study by the Welsh government points out, trading two weeks of viral increase for two weeks of viral “decay” could put the pandemic back by 28 days or more.

  • We have Matthew Rhys from The Americans as a Welsh separatist.

  • The royal couple then traveled on to the Welsh capital of Cardiff to watch a rugby match between Wales and Australia.

  • In 1984, a group of lesbian and gay activists joined forces with striking UK miners to help local Welsh communities.

  • “Ab Welsh, who was a forward with the Saskatoon Quakers was the first one,” Howe said.

  • He'll be played by Grahame Fox, a journeyman Welsh actor who's appeared on the U.K. soap EastEnders and the TV series Casualty.

  • The cross-head, side rods, and boiler were very similar to the Welsh stationary engines of that date.

  • He perceived that they had lived long enough in retirement in the little Welsh village to have acquired a pride in its legend.

  • He pointed out however that the average height of the Yugo-Slavs exceeded that of the Welsh.

  • There is every indication that the city was burned and plundered by the wild Welsh tribes sixteen hundred or more years ago.

  • The weather was glorious and no section of Britain surpassed the Welsh landscapes in beauty.