welsh

Significado (Inglés)

1. (derogatory, offensive, sometimes) To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
2. (derogatory, offensive, sometimes) To go back on one's word.

Conceptos

galés

cámbrico

trampear

Sinónimos

welch

renege

swindle

Cambrian

Traducciones

walisisch

gal·lès

Schmu machen

dolandırmak

φεσώνω

gallois

Gallois

galloise

cambriano

Welsh

Wels

gallés gallesa

galesa

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/wɛlʃ/

Etimología (Inglés)

Sometimes suggested to derive from disparaging stereotypes of the Welsh (“people from Wales”), though firm evidence of this derivation is lacking. Compare gyp (“swindle”) (probably from gypsy (“Roma”)), and jew (“defraud”), from Jew.