chouse
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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
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 Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
I don't think he intends to chouse us," said Bourdin, in a low tone to his companion; "let us do as he wishes, or we'll never get away.
From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue
‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel.
From Time Magazine Archive
All's planned, For the cook of the stew to be canned Out o' hand, When the due to be choused understand!
From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy
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 Peter Anthony Motteux
Ah me! the loveliest of women has choused and cheated me.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
Blanch has a good Understanding, but does not know the World, and is commonly choused by her Neighbours.
Dine at the Cross off steak tough as horse, And charged at the rate of a crown for a course; With bills ever high, and bows ever low, You shall have chousing wherever you go.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
