What's the difference between welsh and welsher?

Welsh


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Wales, or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) The language of Wales, or of the Welsh people.
  • (n.) The natives or inhabitants of Wales.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One rat strain (TAS) is susceptible to the anticoagulant and lethal effects of warfarin and the other two strains are homozygous for warfarin resistance genes from either wild Welsh (HW) or Scottish (HS) rats.
  • (2) Photograph: Gareth Phillips for the Guardian Because health is devolved, the Welsh government can do things differently from England.
  • (3) Any party or witness is entitled to use Welsh in any magistrates court in Wales without prior notice.
  • (4) Jones says the Welsh economy will recover in the coming year.
  • (5) He asked for details of farm subsidies paid to opposition politicians including the Welsh Tory leader, Andrew RT Davies, the Welsh Liberal Democrat chief, Kirsty Williams, and Plaid Cymru's Llyr Huws Gruffydd.
  • (6) Replays cast doubt on the penalty decision, the ball having been touched by the Australian replacement scrum-half, Nick Phipps, before the referee, Craig Joubert, adjudged the Scottish prop Jon Welsh caught it while standing in an offside position.
  • (7) Nine Przewalski's horse embryos were transferred surgically, and 2 non-surgically, to domestic Welsh-type pony mares.
  • (8) The reality is they seem to be in denial that the Welsh budget is shrinking yet they seem to be calling for more money to be spent in practically every area.
  • (9) Whether or not this new addition to the already complex structure that is the English and Welsh education system [see footnote] represents the end of the comprehensive dream, free schools are not an arm of the private sector.
  • (10) Some of her appeal – or so her husband's campaign team must hope – largely lies in her journey from the granddaughter of a coalminer and the second cousin of a Welsh rugby star to, potentially, the powerhouse of western democracy.
  • (11) The gap would have been closer had Sexton not missed those consecutive kicks but the fly-half was back on track in the 61st minute and Ireland had passed their Welsh target with O’Brien about to reach out for his second try that the replacement fly-half Ian Madigan converted.
  • (12) In 2012, politicians in the Welsh Assembly applauded its success in tackling financial exclusion in south-east Wales, noting that the most affordable credit alternative to MoneyLine required the borrower to pay back £82 for every £100 lent whereas MoneyLine charged between £19 and £35 for every £100 lent [link].
  • (13) But instead of Hong Kong or New York, why not try the beautiful Welsh capital?
  • (14) Last year David Cameron dubbed Offa’s Dyke “the line between life and death”, and barely a week goes by at Westminster without the Conservatives kicking the Welsh NHS.
  • (15) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
  • (16) The referendums have accelerated Welsh progress towards autonomy," he says.
  • (17) The 18-year-old man lives in the Grangetown area of the Welsh capital, close to the inner-city areas where two young men who featured in an extremist recruitment video are from.
  • (18) Welsh, but London-based, Jones's real offence to leftwingers - heirs to Nye Bevan - was to be a Blairite, "parachuted" into Blaenau Gwent.
  • (19) A Welsh speaker brought up in Colwyn Bay, he followed his father into banking at what was then Midland Bank across the border in Liverpool.
  • (20) It’s not just his goals, it’s everything – his whole manner when he’s wearing a Welsh jersey; he loves it.

Welsher


Definition:

  • (n.) One who cheats at a horse race; one who bets, without a chance of being able to pay; one who receives money to back certain horses and absconds with it.

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