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welsh
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Welsh/Mexican etc border
▪ I had reached the Swiss border.
Welsh dresser
Welsh rarebit
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Welsh

Welsh \Welsh\, n.

  1. The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.

  2. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

    Note: The Welsh call themselves Cymry, in the plural, and a Welshman Cymro, and their country Cymru, of which the adjective is Cymreig, and the name of their language Cymraeg. They are a branch of the Celtic family, and a relic of the earliest known population of England, driven into the mountains of Wales by the Anglo-Saxon invaders.

Welsh

Welsh \Welsh\, a. [AS. w[ae]lisc, welisc, from wealh a stranger, foreigner, not of Saxon origin, a Welshman, a Celt, Gael; akin to OHG. walh, whence G. w["a]lsch or welsch, Celtic, Welsh, Italian, French, Foreign, strange, OHG. walhisc; from the name of a Celtic tribe. See Walnut.] Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants. [Sometimes written also Welch.]

Welsh flannel, a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand.

Welsh glaive, or Welsh hook, a weapon of war used in former times by the Welsh, commonly regarded as a kind of poleax.
--Fairholt.
--Craig.

Welsh mortgage (O. Eng. Law), a species of mortgage, being a conveyance of an estate, redeemable at any time on payment of the principal, with an understanding that the profits in the mean time shall be received by the mortgagee without account, in satisfaction of interest.
--Burrill.

Welsh mutton, a choice and delicate kind of mutton obtained from a breed of small sheep in Wales.

Welsh onion (Bot.), a kind of onion ( Allium fistulosum) having hollow inflated stalks and leaves, but scarcely any bulb, a native of Siberia. It is said to have been introduced from Germany, and is supposed to have derived its name from the German term w["a]lsch foreign.

Welsh parsley, hemp, or halters made from hemp. [Obs. & Jocular]
--J. Fletcher.

Welsh rabbit. See under Rabbit.

Welsh

Welsh \Welsh\, v. t. & i.

  1. To cheat by avoiding payment of bets; -- said esp. of an absconding bookmaker at a race track. [Slang]

  2. To avoid dishonorably the fulfillment of a pecuniary obligation. [Slang]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Welsh

Old English Wielisc, Wylisc (West Saxon), Welisc, Wælisc (Anglian and Kentish) "foreign; British (not Anglo-Saxon), Welsh; not free, servile," from Wealh, Walh "Celt, Briton, Welshman, non-Germanic foreigner;" in Tolkien's definition, "common Gmc. name for a man of what we should call Celtic speech," but also applied in Germanic languages to speakers of Latin, hence Old High German Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and Old Norse Val-land "France," Valir "Gauls, non-Germanic inhabitants of France" (Danish vælsk "Italian, French, southern"); from Proto-Germanic *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic tribal name represented by Latin Volcæ (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul."\n

\nAs a noun, "the Britons," also "the Welsh language," both from Old English. The word survives in Wales, Cornwall, Walloon, walnut, and in surnames Walsh and Wallace. Borrowed in Old Church Slavonic as vlachu, and applied to the Rumanians, hence Wallachia. Among the English, Welsh was used disparagingly of inferior or substitute things (such as Welsh cricket "louse" (1590s); Welsh comb "thumb and four fingers" (1796), and compare welch (v.)). Welsh rabbit is from 1725, also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).

Wiktionary
welsh

vb. (context offensive English) To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.

WordNet
welsh

v. cheat by avoiding payment of a gambling debt

Gazetteer
Welsh, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana
Population (2000): 3380
Housing Units (2000): 1370
Land area (2000): 6.217523 sq. miles (16.103310 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.120424 sq. miles (0.311898 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6.337947 sq. miles (16.415208 sq. km)
FIPS code: 80430
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.237419 N, 92.820593 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70591
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Welsh (surname)

Welsh is a surname from the Anglo-Saxon language given to the Celtic Britons. The surname can also be the result of anglicization of the German cognate Welsch.

Usage examples of "welsh".

But Henry had no mind to break through his general policy by allowing a feudal baronage to plant themselves by force of arms in Ireland, as they had in earlier days settled themselves in northern England and on the Welsh border.

Cai managed to piece together that Margaron was a Welsh name meaning pearl.

Now, Taliesin, a famous Welsh bard of the sixth century, locates this purifying metempsychosis in the Hell of Christianity, whence the soul gradually rises again to felicity, the way for it having been opened by Christ!

In point of fact, Rhys was fluent in both city and country French as well as Welsh, Cree, Aleut, and a few more languages, including the officialese in which he was expected to write his reports.

When the rains finally let up, Judith had just crested a small hillock that her topographics identified as an outher of the Welsh Mountains.

He faced his financial embarrassments with characteristic pluck, but it was a dark hour in the annals of British finance far beyond the boundaries of the Principality, amidst which came the sensational failure of the Overend and Gurney Bank, and, so far as the Welsh Coast Railway in particular was concerned, the interminable legal wrangles not only cost money, but postponed the hour at which the line could earn its keep.

But there is no lack of evidence to prove that common agriculture was practised among some Teuton tribes, the Franks, and the old Scotch, Irish, and Welsh.

When the fire crackled cheerfully, I dropped the first herb into it, reciting the Welsh words I barely understood.

CHRONICLE of the Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

Land of Prydain is not a retelling or retranslation of Welsh mythology.

I lit a pipe, but let it go out, for my attention was held by the shoreless ocean in the west, against which the scarp of the Welsh hills showed in a dim silhouette.

There was an inscription on the barrel in squat uncial letters, but it was written in what looked like Welsh.

I could see nothing, but certainly thought that that unclerical little Welsh pony, Jenkins, was there.

She wore the same smiling expectant and inviting expression that Thyra had shown him and which he had seen upon the face of the dark Welsh girl who had named herself Nikky to him before they were truly wedded in the enclosure of the vitrified fort in Britain.

Europe scientific tests have proven that the Andalusian contributed to the development of the Connemara, the Cleveland Bay, the Friesan, the Hackney, the Percheron, the Thoroughbred, and the Welsh.