About The Word Chouse
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Chouse
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What's The Definition Of Chouse?
[v] defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
Synonyms | Synonyms for Chouse: cheat | chicane | jockey | screw | shaft Related Terms | Find terms related to Chouse: artifice | beat | bilk | cheat | cozen | defraud | diddle | do | feint | flimflam | gambit | gimmick | gyp | jig | overreach | play | ploy | ruse | whizzer See Also | beat | beat out | crush | shell | trounce | vanquish Chouse In Webster's Dictionary \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choused}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Chousing}.] [From Turk. ch[=a][=u]sh a messenger or
interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in
1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of
[pounds]4,000.]
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. --Landor.
\Chouse\, n. 1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. --Hudibras. 2. A trick; sham; imposition. --Johnson. 3. A swindler. --B. Jonson. |
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