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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



... besogne au grant fluns, et si voz di qe ceste naville portent au Mangi e por le Catai si grant abondance de mercandies qe ce est mervoille; et puis quant elles revienent, si tornent encore cargies, et por ce est merveieliosse chouse a veoir la mercandie qe por celle fluns se porte sus et jus." (Marco Polo, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

... that fur—spite!" she cried. "A-set-tin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter. Oh, I'll answer fur him"—she too had risen; her hand trembled on the back of the chair, but her face was scornfully smiling—"he don't mind the money; he'll never git you-uns fined ...
— His "Day In Court" - 1895 • Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)



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



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