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Welsh
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- 1 Of or pertaining to Wales. not-comparable
- 2 Foreign. obsolete
- 3 Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales. not-comparable
- 4 Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. not-comparable
- 5 Indigenously British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation. historical, not-comparable
"The Tudors, it was argued, were of Welsh or ancient British descent."
- 1 of or relating to or characteristic of Wales or its people or their language wordnet
- 1 An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
- 2 An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh.
- 3 A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.
- 1 The Welsh language. uncountable
"9 minutes to 2. We just stopped to have our horses' mouths washed, and there all people spoke welsh."
- 2 a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales wordnet
- 3 The people of Wales. collective, countable, in-plural, uncountable
- 4 a Celtic language of Wales wordnet
- 5 A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon. countable, uncountable
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- 6 a native or resident of Wales wordnet
- 1 To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. derogatory, offensive, sometimes
- 2 cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt wordnet
- 3 To go back on one's word. derogatory, offensive, sometimes
""He can weasel out if^([sic]) it." Ibanez massaged her knuckles. "He can say Couch welshed on a deal, and didn't show, and that's why Karen got got. It isn't conclusive. I have another thing I can lay on him, but even the two combined won't do. We need a third smoking gun if we're really gonna smoke this son of a bitch.""
Etymology
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts). This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)). Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts). This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)). Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
From Middle English Walsch, Welische, from Old English wīelisċ (“Briton; Roman; Celt”), from Proto-West Germanic *walhisk, from Proto-Germanic *walhiskaz (“Celt; later Roman”), from *walhaz (“Celt, Roman”) (compare Old English wealh), from the name of the Gaulish tribe, the Volcae (recorded only in Latin contexts). This word was borrowed from Germanic into Slavic (compare Old Church Slavonic Влахъ (Vlaxŭ, “Vlachs, Romanians”), Byzantine Greek Βλάχος (Blákhos)). Doublet of Vellish. Compare Walloon, walnut, Vlach, Walach, Gaul, Cornwall.
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.
From Old English welise (“foreign”)
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