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Significats de welsher en anglès

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Someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager.

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        Ús de welsher en anglès
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        He was a retail welsher; he lacked the nerve for sweeping enterprises.
        South Wind
        2
        The welsher gave a loud, hoarse guffaw of relish and enjoyment.
        Under Two Flags
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        When I got some of it back, I sat up and managed: You lousy welsher.
        Night Shift
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        He would let no one say he was a "welsher."
        Purple Springs
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        I felt I should never trust myself again, if I turned welsher-that'sthe word, isn't it?
        The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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        But I'm not a welsher, Mr. Norris.
        Night Shift
        7
        The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.
        Under Two Flags
        8
        Last year they tore a welsher pretty nigh to pieces, and this year, if you don't 'part,' they'll do it quite.
        Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)
        9
        He would look at home beating up some welsher in an alley or sitting in a bar with sawdust on the floor.
        All together dead
        10
        The Jew was cool, sharp, and generally silent; the "welsher," heated, eager, flushed with triumph, and glowing with a gloating malignity.
        Under Two Flags
        11
        The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher."
        A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
        12
        The Jew laughed softly, the welsher grimly, at the compliment they paid the Church; Baroni put up his papers into a neat Russia letter book.
        Under Two Flags
        13
        Besides, welshers are slippery dogs, you know.
        Under Two Flags
        14
        No one says nothing against it on the course; the police is there, and they goes after the welshers and persecutes them.
        Esther Waters
        15
        "Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.
        Under Two Flags
        16
        "Look me right in the face and tell me if you're a welsher or not."
        Night Shift
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