chouse
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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a swindle.
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Archaic. a swindler.
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Archaic. a dupe.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of chouse
First recorded in 1600–10; perhaps to be identified with chiaus
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Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smouch, smowch, v.t. to take advantage of, to chouse.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
A-set-tin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.
From His "Day In Court" 1895 by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
Indeed, Madam, why then to proceed: Fame says, that you and my most Conscionable Guardian here, design'd, contriv'd, plotted and agreed to chouse a very civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.
From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd
Quoth he, If you will give me leave To tell you what I now perceive, You'll find yourself an arrant chouse, If y' were but at a Meeting-House.
From Hudibras by Samuel Butler
As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Split me asunder if he would not say that I had choused him!
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Nay, good sir devil, replied the farmer; how can I be said to have choused you, since it was your worship that chose first?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
He was bubbled by every Neighbour he dealt with, and choused by every Tenant he trusted.
Ah me! the loveliest of women has choused and cheated me.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dine at the Cross off steak tough as horse, And charged at the rate of a crown for a course; With bills ever high, and bows ever low, You shall have chousing wherever you go.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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