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

He gave the preference to the race-track. "—of a common welsher," he concluded.

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

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 Gibbon, Perceval

"And you're the man who called me a welsher!"

From The Intrusion of Jimmy by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)