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welsh

verboaggettivoattestato nei dialoghi

  • Regno Unito//wɛlʃ//

To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.

verbo

  1. 1

    To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.

  2. 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."

Etimologia

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.

aggettivo

  1. 1

    obsoletoForeign.

Etimologia

Inherited from Old English welise (“foreign”).

Forme

comparativo
more welsh
superlativo
most welsh
passato
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participio passato
welshed
participio presente
welshing
3ª persona singolare
welshes
Le pagine vicineL'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.

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