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

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

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

“As plain as a pike-staff,” said Bliss; “and you’re a little brick, Evson; and it’s a chouse if any one suspects Elgood any more.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)

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