chouse
Example Sentences
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Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins.
From Time Magazine Archive
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A-settin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Murfree, Mary Noailles
This done, under her unflagging supervision, the model was replaced; fourpence changed hands, and the glazier went his way, saying, as he made his exit:—"That was a chouse, mistress."
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
Don’t say it was a dirty trick—say it was a beastly chouse, or something of that sort.
From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
He fills mine pipe mit Limburg cheese,— Dot vas der roughest chouse: I'd dake dot vrom no oder poy But leedle Yawcob Strauss.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney