(n.) A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Smyth is going to give me pelters for this, Millings.
(2) Algeria have taken the opposite tack to South Korea's toffee pelters , the press lauding Les Verts as heroes and shuffling together a petition to persuade Vahid Halilhodzic to stay on as coach, as Rob Bleaney reports : The Algerian coach is set to leave his position after the tournament, having endured a long-running battle with some sections of the media.
(3) He's been getting pelters from the crowd, as you'd expect.
(4) I got pelters for this when I wrote it on ma blog in 2006, but I reckon football needs bigger pitches.
(5) For fans who have had pelters for acting up down the years, they're taking this with good grace.
Welter
Definition:
(v. i.) To roll, as the body of an animal; to tumble about, especially in anything foul or defiling; to wallow.
(v. i.) To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
(v. i.) To wither; to wilt.
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the most heavily weighted race in a meeting; as, a welter race; the welter stakes.
(n.) That in which any person or thing welters, or wallows; filth; mire; slough.
(n.) A rising or falling, as of waves; as, the welter of the billows; the welter of a tempest.
Example Sentences:
(1) A bitter battle between Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham for tenancy of the stadium, which originally cost £429m to build, was won by the east London club but the deal was later scrapped due to "legal paralysis" amid a welter of challenges.
(2) Photograph: Gordon Welters for the Guardian Sometimes a tour around the Pergamon, which hosts one of the oldest and largest collection of Arab artefacts outside the Arab world, enables a debate that is not easily had inside a crowded refugee shelter.
(3) Young caused controversy by saying Britons had "never had it so good" in this "so-called recession", prompting frustration in No 10 and provoking a welter of criticism from Labour.
(4) A motion which the union said was backed unanimously read: “For staff to learn about the potential sale of the i through other media was appalling; subjecting them to a welter of speculation and uncertainty until their worst fears were realised.” In a message to the Independent staff, the Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas, said she was “really saddened” by the news that the titles were to be printed for the last time next month .
(5) Germany's bureaucratic stasis contrasts with a welter of events, official and unofficial, digital, public and private, in the other former belligerent countries.
(6) To try to keep up with the welter of environmental claims, test the green spin and spot the green frauds, the Guardian is launching today a regular online column, Greenwash, and calls on readers to submit their examples of the fraudulent, mendacious, confusing, ignorant or just daft claims jostling for our attention.
(7) She also added her voice to the welter of criticism over the bickering performance of the BBC's top brass – current and former – in front of the Commons public accounts committee on Monday.
(8) But it is the Kochs' links to a welter of mass mobilisation campaigns opposing Barack Obama that is making the biggest impact.
(9) In the welter of clinical trials, some "commonsense" fundamentals have been lost or submerged, while other ideas seem to have become "modern myths."
(10) The postwar period also shows Wodehouse recognising that the tenor of his fictional universe rode uneasily with the contemporary moment, with its "welter of sex" and "demand for gloom and tragedy".
(11) Chelsea Manning has posted a handwritten letter on her new Twitter feed explaining how her tweets are communicated from military prison in a move designed to quash a welter of internet conspiracy theories claiming the feed is a fraud.
(12) Sands said of last year’s difficulties: “We faced a perfect storm: negative sentiment towards emerging markets, a sharp drop in commodity prices, persistent low interest rates and surplus liquidity, low volatility, and a welter of regulatory challenges.” He navigated the bank through the financial crisis after being promoted from finance director to chief executive in 2006.
(13) Sacha Baron Cohen has signed up a welter of talent to his new comedy film Grimsby, including comedian Johnny Vegas, dramatic journeyman Ian McShane, Homeland star David Harewood, and the Oscar-nominated Gabourey Sidibe.
(14) If governments – dowsing sympathy for the BBC amid a welter of other cuts, playing the hardest of hardball – can blow away independence thus, what's the point of pretending that refurbishing frail defence mechanisms can put Auntie together again?
(15) BCCI was finally shut down in 1991, amid a welter of fraud and corruption charges, with outstanding debts of $10bn.
(16) Did he believe that trying to manage the news with injudicious leaks was a clever manoeuvre in the face of such a welter of negative information emerging about the company on an hourly basis?
(17) The proposal is the most controversial of a welter of ideas that have emerged from the commission, based on the recommendations of its 10 members and more than 300 interviews with stakeholders across the game.
(18) The next two years will be marked by a welter of government reviews,,culminating in the renewal of the BBC's royal charter in 2006.
(19) Market jitters over Europe's debt crisis returned after weeks of relative calm on Wednesday amid a welter of grim statistics from some of the biggest European economies, mixed signals from bickering eurozone political leaders, and mass protests against austerity in southern Europe .
(20) If this remains the truth, it has been somewhat lost in the welter of bad publicity, recrimination and farce that has surrounded the Police Federation of England and Wales over the last year, a period in which Steve Williams , its chairman, has been roundly condemned as a "traitor, a dictator, and an emperor".