welsh.
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
Meaning & usage
To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
To go back on one's word.
Where this word comes from
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.
Foreign.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old English welise (“foreign”).
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