welsh
Multiple Entries:welsh Welsh
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
welsh /welʃ/ (also welch)
▶verb (welsh on) fail to honour (a debt or obligation).
– derivatives
welsher noun.
welsher noun.
– origin C19: of unknown origin.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Welsh/welʃ/
▶noun the Celtic language of Wales. ▶adjective relating to Wales, its people, or their language.
– derivatives
Welshman noun (pl. Welshmen),
Welshness noun,
Welshwoman noun (pl. Welshwomen).
Welshman noun (pl. Welshmen),
Welshness noun,
Welshwoman noun (pl. Welshwomen).
– origin OE Welisc, Wælisc, from a Gmc word meaning ‘foreigner’, from L. Volcae, the name of a Celtic people.
'welsh' also found in these Oxford entries:
AM
- ass
- bach
- bara brith
- bard
- bodkin
- bore da
- boyo
- Brythonic
- bugaboo
- Cambrian
- cariad
- Celtic
- Celtic fringe
- cist
- coracle
- corgi
- croeso
- cromlech
- cwm
- Cymric
- down
- eisteddfod
- flannel
- fluellen
- flummery
- friend
- Gorsedd
- gouge
- gull
- hwyl
- iechyd da
- laver bread
- linn
- metheglin
- mither
- Old Welsh
- Pendragon
- pikelet
- rarebit
- Shelta
- Taffy
- torgoch
- triad
- vendace
- Vlach
- Walloon
- welch
- Welsh
