chousing

"I'm too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark."

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

"I'm too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark."

Lonesome Dove McMurtry, Larry 1985

Chouse or chousing is generally applied to any transaction in which they think they may have been cheated or overcharged.

The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life Robert Cruikshank 1828

But, chousing his colleagues out of their shares, and getting the Gothic Hall into his own hands, he has become the great man you see, and may truly be called by the title of autocrat of all the Greeks.

Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821) John Badcock 1823

Camps to guide the Matriculates with 1st division in chousing their respective stream for higher studies.

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“I’m too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark.”

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995

“I’m too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark.”

Lonesome Dove Larry McMurtry 1985