welsh

To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager.

To fail to fulfill an obligation.

To cheat or practise cheating by betting or taking money as a stake on a horse-race, and running off without settling.

Foreign. See welshnut.

Relating or pertaining to Wales (a titular principality and a part of the island of Great Britain, opposite the southern part of Ireland), or to its people or its indigenous Cymric language

Collectively, as a plural word with the definite article, the people of Wales, or the members of the Cymric race indigenous to Wales. They were ruled by petty princes, and maintained their independence of the English till 1282–3.

The language of Wales or of the Welsh.

The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.

The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; — said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track.