welsh
verbeadjectifattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//wɛlʃ//
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
verbe
- 1
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
- 2
To go back on one's word.
"He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch."
Étymologie
Sometimes held to derive from disparaging stereotypes about the Welsh, though firm evidence of this derivation is lacking. Compare gyp (“swindle”), probably from Gypsy, and jew (“defraud”), from Jew.
adjectif
- 1
obsolèteForeign.
Étymologie
Inherited from Old English welise (“foreign”).
Formes
- comparatif
- more welsh
- superlatif
- most welsh
- passé
- welshed
- participe passé
- welshed
- participe présent
- welshing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- welshes
welsh · To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
Welsh · Of or pertaining to Wales.wen · A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.Wen · A common surname from Chinese of east Asian derivation.