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
Smouch, smowch, v.t. to take advantage of, to chouse.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
Ne'er think of that, and try the hunks to chouse.
From Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by La Fontaine, Jean de
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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 tried to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
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
I can't but laugh to think how she'll be choused.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
"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 Sue, Eugène
It would seem, however, that Mr. Pope had been choused, for the market fell from little to nothing.
From Parson Kelly by Lang, Andrew
To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
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