Synonyms for welsh

Grammar : Verb

Spell : welsh, welch

Phonetic Transcription : wɛlʃ, wɛltʃ

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Définition of welsh

Origin : Old English Wilisc, Wylisc (West Saxon), Welisc, Wælisc (Anglian and Kentish), 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 to speakers of Latin, hence Old High German Walh, Walah "Celt, Roman, Gaulish," and Old Norse Valir "Gauls, Frenchmen" (Danish vælsk "Italian, French, southern"); from Proto-Germanic *Walkhiskaz, from a Celtic name represented by Latin Volcæ (Caesar) "ancient Celtic tribe in southern Gaul." 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, hence Welsh rabbit (1725), also perverted by folk-etymology as Welsh rarebit (1785).

verb renege, swindle

Example sentences :

A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit.
Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce

He is a curate—a Welsh curate;—you are yet Mr. Beaufort, a rich and a great man.
Extract from : « Night and Morning, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In time, he became one of the most famous scholars in Welsh history.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

The Welsh people, by bloodless victory, have won the respect of all mankind.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

At this point the channel is so broad that the Welsh mountains can scarcely be distinguished.
Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle

Norwegian discoverers and Welsh emigrants have been pressed into the service.
Extract from : « Prehistoric Structures of Central America » by Martin Ingham Townsend

I came to Wales, determined to like the Welsh, and I've failed.
Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine

To-day, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish are mixtures within mixtures.
Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby

One points to a card in the window on which is "Welsh Rabbit, 6d."
Extract from : « The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Harry Furniss

Four days passed like this, varied by visits from the doctor and my Welsh landlady.
Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine

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