welsh
/wɛlʃ/ verb C2- To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
- To go back on one's word.
He/she/it welshes · Past welshed · Past participle welshed · -ing form welshing
Verb forms
- Base form
- welsh
- He/she/it
- welshes
- Past
- welshed
- Past participle
- welshed
- -ing form
- welshing
From the library
“Clementina,” she explained, “insisted upon a Welsh rabbit after her lesson.
Welsh rabbits at 5 in the afternoon.
And when a girl in the laundry set down a hot iron on my hand this afternoon I was all the way home making up that story about the Welsh rabbit.
Rachel—who is a very good girl, but of an excitable Welsh temperament—had a sharp touch of brain-fever, and goes about the house now—or did until yesterday—like a black-eyed shadow of her former self.
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