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Brewer's: Welsher
One who lays a bet, but absconds if he loses. It means a Welshman, and is based upon the nursery rhyme, “Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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