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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
chouse .
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Examples
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The crocodile had "choused" him out of his favourite supper.
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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He loudly protested against being "choused" out of his bargain, and declared that he would bring two hundred men, if necessary, for the purpose of reclaiming his own.
The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850
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The crocodile had "choused" him out of his favourite supper.
The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850
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A bad father would be the joy of my life; 'twould be all fair play there; the more he was choused the better. '
Camilla 2008
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I choused it over other because it can work with both MS Outlook and Outlook Express
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Nay, good sir devil, replied the farmer; how can I be said to have choused you, since it was your worship that chose first?
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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Nay, good sir devil, replied the farmer; how can I be said to have choused you, since it was your worship that chose first?
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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Ah me! the loveliest of women has choused and cheated me.
Lysistrata 2000
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