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
Ne'er think of that, and try the hunks to chouse.
From Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by Jean de La Fontaine
He fills mine pipe mit Limburg cheese— Dot vas der roughest chouse; I'd dake dot vrom no oder poy But leedle Yawcob Strauss.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; Ð often with out.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
All's planned, For the cook of the stew to be canned Out o' hand, When the due to be choused understand!
From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy
I can't but laugh to think how she'll be choused.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Lookee, Sophy," answered the squire, "I am not to be choused in this manner.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Phil Haddin's not so easily choused, I promise you.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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
Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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