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
Example Sentences
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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
And now, when he might have left me the mill-house he must needs marry this widow Garcia and set to work forthwith to chouse me out of my inheritance!
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)
Arter all yer Public Garding's little better than a chouse, While the landlord rents yer heart out for a wretched Privit 'Ouse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various
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
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