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
Indeed, Madam, why then to proceed: Fame says, that you and my most Conscionable Guardian here, design'd, contriv'd, plotted and agreed to chouse a very civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.
From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd
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
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 Samuel Butler
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
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
And he choused me out of my shot.”
From The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley by Bertram Mitford
"And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible."
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 by Eugène Sue
He would willingly have made her a present of the difference, but he did not in the least intend to be choused out of it by man nor woman.
From Red Saunders His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips
Lookee, Sophy," answered the squire, "I am not to be choused in this manner.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.
From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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
