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 fought a welsher," pursued the Vicar, "just before riding in a race.
From The Astonishing History of Troy Town by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
He knows every rook and welsher and every swell magsman, and all their haunts and habits.
From Half A Chance by Frederic Stewart Isham
"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
