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
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 Andy Adams
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 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 H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for Titus Andronicus, the only play—ain’t it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tries to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.
From Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. by Mark Twain
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
He was bubbled by every Neighbour he dealt with, and choused by every Tenant he trusted.
Ah me! the loveliest of women has choused and cheated me.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
I can't but laugh to think how she'll be choused.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
"Somehow whenst folks dies by accident, it 'pears ter me a mistake—somehows—ez ef they war choused out'n time what war laid off fur them an' their'n by right."
From The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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
