Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Turkish interpreter, messenger, or attendant.
- noun A trick; a sham; an imposition.
- noun An impostor; a cheat.
- noun One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton.
- To cheat; trick; swindle: often followed by of or out of: as, to
chouse one out of his money.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb colloq. To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by
of , orout of . - noun One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
- noun A trick; sham; imposition.
- noun A swindler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
cheat ,trick - noun One who is easily cheated; a
gullible person. - noun A
trick ; asham . - noun A
swindler .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Etymologies
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Examples
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[The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 22: May/June 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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[The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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[The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1663 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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[The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1663 Pepys, Samuel 1663
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Nobel was a famous dude who produced weapons and axplosives. now bet what kind of joke it is when someone will ask him to be the candidate for Nobels prise. wich one will he chouse?
Chairman Ma -- ow! Michael Turton 2009
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For without freedom we all loose the ability to chouse our words, our loves, and our lives.
Think Progress » Note to Rep. Virgil Goode: Keith Ellison Is Not An Immigrant 2006
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“And why would he send a dern girl all the way up here to chouse us?”
Telegraph Days Larry Mcmurtry 2006
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Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice,
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
yarb commented on the word chouse
The pirate seemed to chuckle at so successful a drag; and the scoundrel, not contented with chousing us of our cash, insulted us with his infernal Moorish witticisms: but the edge of his satire was not half so keen as the dire necessity which made us the subject of it.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1
September 19, 2008
Gammerstang commented on the word chouse
(verb) - To cheat; to defraud. Similar in origin to such words as burke, boycott, and bogus. It is now classed as slang in England but for a long period was much used by standard English writers. In America however, the word is still looked upon as orthodox and is applied to all kinds of fraudulent dealing and deceit. --John Farmer's Americanisms Old and New, 1889
February 5, 2018