Meanings of welsher in English

He was a retail welsher; he lacked the nerve for sweeping enterprises.

The welsher gave a loud, hoarse guffaw of relish and enjoyment.

When I got some of it back, I sat up and managed: You lousy welsher.

He would let no one say he was a "welsher."

I felt I should never trust myself again, if I turned welsher-that'sthe word, isn't it?

But I'm not a welsher, Mr. Norris.

The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher.

Last year they tore a welsher pretty nigh to pieces, and this year, if you don't 'part,' they'll do it quite.

He would look at home beating up some welsher in an alley or sitting in a bar with sawdust on the floor.

The Jew was cool, sharp, and generally silent; the "welsher," heated, eager, flushed with triumph, and glowing with a gloating malignity.

The mob hated the common informers as bitterly as a well-dressed crowd at a race-course in our own time hates a "welsher."

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.

Besides, welshers are slippery dogs, you know.

No one says nothing against it on the course; the police is there, and they goes after the welshers and persecutes them.

"Why, it is a fleecing of one," retorted the welsher savagely, even amid his successes.

"Look me right in the face and tell me if you're a welsher or not."