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chouse

[chous] / tʃaʊs /




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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

Mr. Arledge has to buy so many gold cigarettes and vintages and trouserings, and belong to so many clubs, that he wants the Court to help him chouse a poor grocer out of his money.

From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Wilson, Harry Leon

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

Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice, 'twill be mine.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

Smouch, smowch, v.t. to take advantage of, to chouse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various




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