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Welsher   Listen
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Welsher  n.  (Written also welcher)  One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it. (Slang, Eng.)






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"Welsher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Poog don't take finger bets for hundreds, and Trimmer never did bet that way. He's a born welsher, anyhow. He looks the part, and I just want to tell you, Bobby, that if you go to the mat with this crab you'll get up with the marks of his pinchers on your windpipe; ...
— The Making of Bobby Burnit - Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man • George Randolph Chester



Words linked to "Welsher" :   welsh, scammer, chiseler, defrauder, swindler, welcher, grifter, chiseller, gouger



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