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

He's a good fellow, Ele is," said Belch; "but he's largely interested, and he'll probably try to chouse us out of something by affecting superior influence.

From Trumps by Curtis, George William

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 Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest