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Added 1 October 2026

welsh

/wɛlʃ/ verb

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To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
To go back on one's word.

adjective

Foreign.

Origin

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.

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