Definition of "welshers" [welshers]

• Plural form of welsher. (noun)

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• "It's not the "myth" or the "worthless set of IOU's" that would-be welshers and piggy-bank robbers like Alan Simpson keep cackling about."
• "As the days passed and the "tumult and shouting" died, it gave a certain amount of satisfaction to find that amongst the jeerers and sneerers at the memorable Reed's Hall meeting, those who had battled most vigorously for the horizontal cut of twenty-five cents were those who afterward developed into the worst welshers and shavers in the entire history of the loss settlements of the San Francisco or any other conflagration."
• "But when other chaps on the panel presented their excuses to the judge and managed to persuade him of the imperative needs of family or business, and slipped -- grinning discreetly -- out of the court room, he merely inaudibly called them welshers and pikers."