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welsh 
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Audio Help [welsh, welch] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object) Informal: Sometimes Offensive.
| 1. | to cheat by failing to pay a gambling debt: You aren't going to welsh on me, are you? |
| 2. | to go back on one's word: He welshed on his promise to help in the campaign. |
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Welsh
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Audio Help [welsh, welch] Pronunciation Key –adjective
–noun
| 1. | of or pertaining to Wales, its people, or their language. |
| 2. | the inhabitants of Wales and their descendants elsewhere. |
| 3. | Also called Cymric, Kymric. the Celtic language of Wales. |
| 4. | one of a white, lop-eared breed of swine of Welsh origin that produces a large amount of lean meat. |
Also, Welch.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME Welische, OE Welisc, deriv. of Walh Briton, foreigner (cf. L Volcae a Gallic tribe); c. G welsch foreign, Italian]
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intr.v. welshed also welched, welsh·ing also welch·ing, welsh·es also welch·es Informal
[Origin unknown.] welsh'er n. |
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adj. Of or relating to Wales or its people, language, or culture. n.
[Middle English Walische, from Old English Wælisc, from Wealh, foreigner, Welshman, Celt, perhaps of Celtic origin.] |
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Welsh
O.E. Wilisc, Wylisc (W.Saxon), Welisc, Wælisc (Anglian and Kentish), from Wealh, Walh "Celt, Briton, Welshman, non-Germanic foreigner;" in Tolkien's definition, "common Gmc. name for a man of what we should call Celtic speech," but also applied to speakers of Latin, hence O.H.G. Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and O.N. Valir "Gauls, Frenchmen" (Dan. vælsk "Italian, French, southern"); from P.Gmc. *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic name represented by L. Volcæ (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul." The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in O.C.S. as vlachu, and applied to Romanians, hence Walachia. Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things, hence Welsh rabbit (1725), also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| welsh | |
adjective | |
| 1. | of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language; "the Welsh coast"; "Welsh syntax" |
noun | |
| 1. | a native or resident of Wales [syn: Welshman] |
| 2. | a Celtic language of Wales |
| 3. | a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales |
verb | |
| 1. | cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
Welsh, LA (town, FIPS 80430) Location: 30.23548 N, 92.81212 W
Population (1990): 3299 (1266 housing units)
Area: 16.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 70591
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Welsh
Welsh\, v. t. & i. (a) To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. [Slang] (b) To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. [Slang]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Welsh
Wal"nut\, n. [OE. walnot, AS. wealh-hnutu a Welsh or foreign nut, a walnut; wealh foreign, strange, n., a Welshman, Celt (akin to OHG. Walh, properly, a Celt, from the name of a Celtic tribe, in L. Volcae) + hnutu a nut; akin to D. walnoot, G. walnuss, Icel. valhnot, Sw. valn["o]t, Dan valn["o]d. See Nut, and cf. Welsh.] (Bot.) The fruit or nut of any tree of the genus Juglans; also, the tree, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone. Note: In some parts of America, especially in New England, the name walnut is given to several species of hickory (Carya), and their fruit. Ash-leaved walnut, a tree (Juglans fraxinifolia), native in Transcaucasia. Black walnut, a North American tree (J. nigra) valuable for its purplish brown wood, which is extensively used in cabinetwork and for gunstocks. The nuts are thick-shelled, and nearly globular. English, or European, walnut, a tree (J. regia), native of Asia from the Caucasus to Japan, valuable for its timber and for its excellent nuts, which are also called Madeira nuts. Walnut brown, a deep warm brown color, like that of the heartwood of the black walnut. Walnut oil, oil extracted from walnut meats. It is used in cooking, making soap, etc. White walnut, a North American tree (J. cinerea), bearing long, oval, thick-shelled, oily nuts, commonly called butternuts. See Butternut.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Welsh
Welch\, a. See Welsh. [R.]| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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