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.
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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
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
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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
And now, when he might have left me the mill-house he must needs marry this widow Garcia and set to work forthwith to chouse me out of my inheritance!
From The Firebrand by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
Phil Haddin's not so easily choused, I promise you.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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 Henry Wallace Phillips
"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
Lookee, Sophy," answered the squire, "I am not to be choused in this manner.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
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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