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
Mr. Arledge has to buy so many gold cigarettes and vintages and trouserings, and belong to so many clubs, that he wants the Court to help him chouse a poor grocer out of his money.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon
To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; Ð often with out.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Don’t say it was a dirty trick—say it was a beastly chouse, or something of that sort.
From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
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 Holcroft, Thomas
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
And he choused me out of my shot.”
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Mitford, Bertram
My gentleman must have been nicely choused by somebody.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
He jolly well choused himself, he did, if he thought he could make us sit up with his roast-meat story!
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
He would willingly have made her a present of the difference, but he did not in the least intend to be choused out of it by man nor woman.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Phillips, Henry Wallace
Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.
From Round the Red Lamp by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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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