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Chouse   Listen
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Chouse  v. t.  (past & past part. choused; pres. part. chousing)  To cheat, trick, defraud; followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. (Colloq.) "The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness."






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"Chouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... an ancient pedigree There is a halo fair to see, With "unwrung withers" we afford Our salutation to milord, As due unto his ancient house, Albeit his lordship be a chouse. And riches dazzle us—we know How much they might or should bestow: But power is nothing, sans the will, Often recalcitrant to ill: And yet the mob will stand and gaze On each, with similar amaze. ...
— Fables of John Gay - (Somewhat Altered) • John Gay

... this was chaus, whence chouse and chiaush, and the vulgar form chiaus (N. Eng. Dict., art. "Chiaus"). The peculations of a certain "chiaus" in the year A.D. 1000 are said to have been the origin of the word "to chouse."] ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... Chouse or chousing is generally applied to any transaction in which they think they may have been cheated ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle

... cheated the maid and taken the boy from her, so now to carry on the game and pawn him for a thousand dinars." So she repaired to the jewel-bazar, where she saw a Jew goldsmith seated with a cage full of jewellery before him, and said to herself, "'Twould be a rare trick to chouse this Jew fellow and get a thousand gold pieces worth of jewellery from him and leave the boy in pledge for it." Presently the Jew looked at them and seeing the boy with the old woman, knew him for the ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Chouse" :   cheat, trounce, beat, shaft, chicane, crush, beat out, screw, shell, jockey



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