welsh
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- Regno Unito//wɛlʃ//
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
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To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
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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.
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obsoletoForeign.
Etimologia
Inherited from Old English welise (“foreign”).
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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.