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
Whereof I be all in a quandary, for it do seem I wus within an ames ace of a havin bin chouse flickur'd meself.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
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
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
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
Lookee, Sophy," answered the squire, "I am not to be choused in this manner.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
"And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible."
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue
Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice, 'twill be mine.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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
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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