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
Arter all yer Public Garding's little better than a chouse, While the landlord rents yer heart out for a wretched Privit 'Ouse.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various
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
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
Indeed, Madam, why then to proceed: Fame says, that you and my most Conscionable Guardian here, design'd, contriv'd, plotted and agreed to chouse a very civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.
From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd
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
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
And he choused me out of my shot.”
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
All's planned, For the cook of the stew to be canned Out o' hand, When the due to be choused understand!
From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy
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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