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chouse

[ chous ]

verb (used with object)

choused, chousing.
  1. to swindle; cheat (often followed by of or out of ).


noun

  1. a swindle.
  2. Archaic. a swindler.
  3. Archaic. a dupe.
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • dzܲİ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of chouse1

First recorded in 1600–10; perhaps to be identified with chiaus
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Last Wednesday, the night before the premiere, the orchestra and chouses gathered in the Kimmel Center for a rehearsal.

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To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; Ð often with out.

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It would seem, however, that Mr. Pope had been choused, for the market fell from little to nothing.

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Ellis now coloured deeply; and Ireton, heartily laughing, repeated the word 'choused?' while Mrs Maple, off all guard, looked fiercely at Ellis, and exclaimed, 'This is just what I have all along expected!

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The scheme is for the Government to chouse the Indians out of this section of country by hook or by crook—then mining concessions will be granted to the wire-pullers and their friends.

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