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
- chouser noun
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
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
‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
He's a good fellow, Ele is," said Belch; "but he's largely interested, and he'll probably try to chouse us out of something by affecting superior influence.
From Trumps by Curtis, George William
“As plain as a pike-staff,” said Bliss; “and you’re a little brick, Evson; and it’s a chouse if any one suspects Elgood any more.”
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
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