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
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 Mary Noailles Murfree
‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
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 this is all the reply you have to make to the complaints of those whom you have choused.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
I'm had—yes, and tricked, choused, slanged, and banged!
From Fontainbleau by John O'Keeffe
Phil Haddin's not so easily choused, I promise you.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
But the Mayor is not going to be choused out of his guests; don't you believe it!
From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay
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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