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
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 Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
A-settin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for Titus Andronicus, the only play—ain’t it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tries to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.
From Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. by Twain, Mark
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