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

Quoth he, If you will give me leave To tell you what I now perceive, You'll find yourself an arrant chouse, If y' were but at a Meeting-House.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

Arter all yer Public Garding's little better than a chouse, While the landlord rents yer heart out for a wretched Privit 'Ouse.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, January 9, 1892 by Various

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

But if you want me to cut him out of your string of eligibles, say the word, and I'll chouse him out.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy