welsh
IPA: wˈɛɫtʃ
Root Word: Welsh
noun
- (uncountable) The Welsh language.
- (collectively, in the plural) The people of Wales.
- A breed of pig, kept mainly for bacon.
- An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname for someone who was a Welshman or a Celt.
- An Irish surname, a variant of Walsh.
- A town in Louisiana, United States, named for early landowner Henry Welsh.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio, United States, named for an early settler.
verb
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
- (derogatory, sometimes offensive) To go back on one's word.
adjective
- (now historical) (Native) British; pertaining to the Celtic peoples who inhabited much of Britain before the Roman occupation.
- Of or pertaining to Wales.
- Of or pertaining to the Celtic language of Wales.
- Designating plants or animals from or associated with Wales. (See Derived terms.)
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Examples of "welsh" in Sentences
- This was – and still is – a region of agriculture with some renowned products such as welsh rabbit, goat cheeses and white asparagus.
- How do the definitions of the word "welsh" that Davies chooses to precede the novel come to bear on the events and themes of the book?
- And the same is true across the whole of Wales, even in areas such as Monmouth which can hardly be described as welsh speaking heartlands.
- Next thing you know she'll be appearing in photos with that 'welsh' exile terry matthews proclaiming that there'll be more millionaires in a self governing wales!
- I went to school in west wales and i didn’t do English like everybody else until i was in year 3 (7/8years old) which made it easier as welsh is my fist language as and it is generally the first language of most people here in CARMARTHENSHIRE.
- ..besides, page & plant wrote much of their 3rd & 4th albums in a stone cottage called "bron-yr-aur" like the song or "hillside of gold" in welsh, which is quite literally a stones throw from an ancestral home of the bgw family in machynlleth...
- She continues, "Another favorite of mine for a quick supper ... (but not very healthy) is what we called welsh rarebit - tomato soup, Worcestershire sauce and shredded cheddar cheese over saltine crackers (which makes a) quick supper after a long hard day at work."
- What really bothers me is that the people who would consider our friends, the aussies and the welsh are the first to comment, when our oldest foes the South Africans say nothing and treat our tradition with respect, maybe because they to understand the significance of indigenous culture.
- There is a feeling where I live that Plaid has been happy to fail its core voters, to take them for granted, in their desperation to look like they're not 'favouring' Welsh.,Even tiwht the Treganna schools issue, theyre so desperate not to look too 'welsh'-oriented that they're dropping their pledges.
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