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Definition: Welsher |
WelsherNoun1. Someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Note: Welsher \Welsh"er\, noun. One who cheats at horse race; one who bets, without chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it. [Written also welcher.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Welsher One who lays a bet, but absconds if he loses. It means a Welshman, and is based upon the nursery rhyme, "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonym: WelsherSynonym: welcher (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nonpayment | Bankrupt, insolvent, debtor, lame duck, man of straw, welsher, stag, defaulter, levanter. |
Thief | Cut purse, pick purse; pickpocket, light-fingered gentry; sharper; card sharper, skittle sharper; thimblerigger; rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher; defaulter; Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster; swell mob, chevalier d'industrie; shoplifter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Our father who art in Heaven ... / designed by W.A. Welsher.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Language | Translations for "welsher"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Greek | κακοπληρωτήσ (bad payer, dead beat), απατεών (circumventer, circumventor, cozener, crook, deceiver, faker, fraud, hoodwinker, jockey, knave, rook, shammer, shark, sharp, shaver, slicker, swindler, tricker, trickster, victimizer, welcher). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | braddee gioalyn. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | elsherway обманщик (bluffer, charlatan, cheat, cheater, counterfeiter, crook, deceiver, deceptive person, double-dealer, faker, fiddler, four-flusher, fraudster, impostor, phoney, tricker, trickster). (various references) | ||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "welsher": welshers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "welsher" (pronounced 'Welsh"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-l-r-s-w" | |
-1 letter: hewers, shewer, wheels, wheres. | |
-2 letters: ewers, heels, heres, herls, hewer, leers, lehrs, reels, resew, sewer, sheer, shrew, sweer, welsh, wheel, where. | |
-3 letters: eels, else, ewer, ewes, heel, here, herl, hers, hews, leer, lees, lehr, reel, rees, resh, seel, seer, sere, shew, slew, weel, weer, wees, were, whee. | |
-4 letters: eel, els, ere, ers, ewe, her. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-l-r-s-w" | |
+1 letter: welchers, welshers, wheelers. | |
+2 letters: clerihews, elsewhere, erewhiles, erstwhile, shrewlike, wheedlers. | |
+3 letters: cartwheels, freewheels, gearwheels, overwhelms, pewholders, showerless, wheelhorse, wheelworks, wholesaler. | |
+4 letters: bellwethers, otherwhiles, underwhelms, waterwheels, weltschmerz, wheelchairs, wheelhorses, wholesalers. | |
+5 letters: cartwheelers, freewheelers, leatherwoods, netherworlds, weatherglass, wheelbarrows, wheelwrights, wherewithals, whiffletrees, whippletrees. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 65 6C 73 68 65 72 |
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