welsh

FREQ #12079

发音

US
UK /wɛlʃ/

词形变化

welshed welshes 三单 welshes welshing welshing 现在分词 welshed 过去式 welshed 过去分词 more welsh 比较级 most welsh 最高级

别名

welch

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.

    贬义 冒犯
  2. 2.

    To go back on one's word.

    贬义 冒犯
adj.
  1. 1.

    Foreign.

    废旧

词汇关系

动词

同义词 1

welch

上位词 3

cheat chisel rip off
形容词

同义词 1

Cambrian

相关短语

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词源

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.

来源：wiktionary