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 was a retail welsher; he lacked the nerve for sweeping enterprises.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
Well, I tows her into the boss's office, feelin' as mean as a welsher.
From Torchy by George Brehm
"And you're the man who called me a welsher!"
From The Intrusion of Jimmy by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
