All welsh synonyms
welsh
W w verb welsh
- slip out β to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- take for a ride β to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- take to the cleaners β a person who cleans, especially one whose regular occupation is cleaning offices, buildings, equipment, etc.
- renege β Cards. to play a card that is not of the suit led when one can follow suit; break a rule of play.
- swindle β to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- bamboozle β To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- bilk β To bilk someone out of something, especially money, means to cheat them out of it.
- cheat β When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
- con β Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- deceive β If you deceive someone, you make them believe something that is not true, usually in order to get some advantage for yourself.
- defraud β If someone defrauds you, they take something away from you or stop you from getting what belongs to you by means of tricks and lies.
- dodge β to elude or evade by a sudden shift of position or by strategy: to dodge a blow; to dodge a question.
- duck β any of numerous wild or domesticated web-footed swimming birds of the family Anatidae, especially of the genus Anas and allied genera, characterized by abroad, flat bill, short legs, and depressed body.
- dupe β duplicate.
- fleece β the coat of wool that covers a sheep or a similar animal.
- flimflam β a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- fool β to trick, deceive, or impose on: They tried to fool him.
- gull β a person who is easily deceived or cheated; dupe.
- hoodwink β to deceive or trick.
- sandbag β a bag filled with sand, used in fortification, as ballast, etc.
- scam β a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.
- shaft β a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- stiff β rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar.
- sting β to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- trick β a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- weasel β any small carnivore of the genus Mustela, of the family Mustelidae, having a long, slender body and feeding chiefly on small rodents.
- beat around the bush β to talk around a subject without getting to the point
- cop out β If you say that someone is copping out, you mean they are avoiding doing something they should do.
- pull a fast one β moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- rip off β a rent made by ripping; tear.