"welch" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /wɛlt͡ʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-welch.wav [Southern-England] Forms: welches [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛltʃ Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh. Head templates: {{en-noun}} welch (plural welches)
  1. A person who defaults on an obligation, especially a small one. Synonyms: welcher Hypernyms: infringer Coordinate_terms: moocher, pincher Translations (person who defaults on an obligation): 拖欠者 (tuōqiàn zhě) (Chinese Mandarin), 欠債人 /欠债人 (qiànzhài rén) (Chinese Mandarin), 違約者 /违约者 (wéiyuē zhě) (Chinese Mandarin), luikuri (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-welch-en-noun-bsoDt1Zw Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Czech translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, People Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 11 11 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 82 9 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 79 11 11 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 7 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Czech translations: 84 8 8 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 78 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 78 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 78 11 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 86 7 7 Disambiguation of People: 100 0 0

Verb [English]

IPA: /wɛlt͡ʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-welch.wav [Southern-England] Forms: welches [present, singular, third-person], welching [participle, present], welched [participle, past], welched [past]
Rhymes: -ɛltʃ Etymology: Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh. Head templates: {{en-verb}} welch (third-person singular simple present welches, present participle welching, simple past and past participle welched)
  1. To fail to repay a small debt. Hypernyms: impinge, infringe Coordinate_terms: mooch, pinch Translations (fail to repay a small debt): 拖欠債務 /拖欠债务 (tuōqiàn zhàiwù) (Chinese Mandarin), 欠小債 /欠小债 (qiàn xiǎo zhài) (Chinese Mandarin), jättää vippi maksamatta (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-welch-en-verb-plKoYagS Disambiguation of 'fail to repay a small debt': 82 18
  2. To fail to fulfill an obligation. Translations (fail to fulfill an obligation): 違約 /违约 (wéiyuē) (Chinese Mandarin), 食言而肥 (shíyán'érféi) (Chinese Mandarin), vybodnout se [perfective] (Czech), vykašlat se [perfective] (Czech), vyprdnout se (na co) [perfective] (Czech), vypustit [perfective] (Czech), opominout [perfective] (Czech), luistaa (Finnish), rikkoa lupaus (Finnish), prellen (German), bescheißen (english: profane) (German), linken [colloquial] (German), vacilar (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-welch-en-verb-4eqduN8o Disambiguation of 'fail to fulfill an obligation': 18 82
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: welcher

Determiner [German]

IPA: /vɛlç/ Audio: De-welch.ogg [Germany, Berlin] Forms: welch' [alternative]
Head templates: {{head|de|determiner}} welch
  1. (only preceding ein or an adjective, emphatic) what Tags: emphatic Synonyms: was für Related terms: welcher

Inflected forms

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        "To fail to repay a small debt."
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          "sense": "fail to repay a small debt",
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        {
          "ref": "1992, Bo Goldman, Scent of a Woman (film)",
          "text": "I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)",
          "text": "MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched."
        }
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        "To fail to fulfill an obligation."
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          "roman": "shíyán'érféi",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
          "word": "食言而肥"
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          "code": "cs",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "lang_code": "cs",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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        {
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "english": "profane",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
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          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
          "word": "vacilar"
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          "english": "How fortunate!",
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          "english": "The German prankster in America",
          "ref": "1911, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], Der Deutsche Lausbub in Amerika [The German prankster in America], page 255:",
          "text": "Welch' ein Esel Bruder Leichtfuß doch war—welch' ein unbeschreiblich törichter dickköpfiger Junge!",
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      "sense": "person who defaults on an obligation",
      "word": "拖欠者"
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      "roman": "qiànzhài rén",
      "sense": "person who defaults on an obligation",
      "word": "欠債人 /欠债人"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "person who defaults on an obligation",
      "word": "違約者 /违约者"
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      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "person who defaults on an obligation",
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    "Terms with Czech translations",
    "Terms with Finnish translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations",
    "en:People"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "welcher"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Alternative form of welsh, from Welsh.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "welches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "welching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "welched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "welched",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "welch (third-person singular simple present welches, present participle welching, simple past and past participle welched)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "coordinate_terms": [
        {
          "word": "mooch"
        },
        {
          "word": "pinch"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to repay a small debt."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "impinge"
        },
        {
          "word": "infringe"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ],
        [
          "repay",
          "repay"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1992, Bo Goldman, Scent of a Woman (film)",
          "text": "I welched. I'm a welcher. Didn't I tell you?"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)",
          "text": "MICHAEL: Clemenza promised Rosato three territories in the Bronx after he died, and then you took over and welched."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To fail to fulfill an obligation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fail",
          "fail"
        ],
        [
          "fulfill",
          "fulfill"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/wɛlt͡ʃ/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-welch.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welch.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/47/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welch.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-welch.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛltʃ"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "tuōqiàn zhàiwù",
      "sense": "fail to repay a small debt",
      "word": "拖欠債務 /拖欠债务"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "qiàn xiǎo zhài",
      "sense": "fail to repay a small debt",
      "word": "欠小債 /欠小债"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "fail to repay a small debt",
      "word": "jättää vippi maksamatta"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "wéiyuē",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "違約 /违约"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "shíyán'érféi",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "食言而肥"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vybodnout se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vykašlat se"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vyprdnout se (na co)"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "vypustit"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "opominout"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "luistaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "rikkoa lupaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "prellen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "english": "profane",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "translation": "profane",
      "word": "bescheißen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "word": "linken"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "fail to fulfill an obligation",
      "word": "vacilar"
    }
  ],
  "word": "welch"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "welch'",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "determiner"
      },
      "expansion": "welch",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "German",
  "lang_code": "de",
  "pos": "det",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "welcher"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "German determiners",
        "German entries with incorrect language header",
        "German lemmas",
        "German terms with quotations",
        "German terms with usage examples",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Requests for translations of German quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_literal_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              4
            ]
          ],
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              5
            ]
          ],
          "english": "How fortunate!",
          "literal_meaning": "What a luck!",
          "text": "Welch ein Glück!",
          "translation": "How fortunate!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              0,
              6
            ],
            [
              42,
              48
            ]
          ],
          "english": "The German prankster in America",
          "ref": "1911, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], Der Deutsche Lausbub in Amerika [The German prankster in America], page 255:",
          "text": "Welch' ein Esel Bruder Leichtfuß doch war—welch' ein unbeschreiblich törichter dickköpfiger Junge!",
          "translation": "The German prankster in America",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              12,
              17
            ],
            [
              27,
              32
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1956, Ernst Bloch, Das Prinzip Hoffnung, volume 3, Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, page 304:",
          "text": "In der Tat, welch ein Weg, welch ein Vergessen und Aufhellen von dem unheimlichen eulenartigen Wesen, das ums Erechtheion geistert, bis zur Pallas Athene Homers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "what"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ein",
          "ein"
        ],
        [
          "what",
          "what"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(only preceding ein or an adjective, emphatic) what"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "preceding ein or an adjective"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "emphatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/vɛlç/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "De-welch.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5b/De-welch.ogg/De-welch.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/De-welch.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Germany",
        "Berlin"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "was für"
    }
  ],
  "word": "welch"
}

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