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
A-set-tin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.
From His "Day In Court" 1895 by A. B. (Arthur Burdett) Frost
But Luff contrived a novel mode His creditors to chouse; For his own execution he Put into his own house!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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
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
"I may be wrong," remarked Bulger, "but judgin' by cap'n's face, he've been an' choused the Pirate--got twice the valley o' the goods he's landed."
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
He was bubbled by every Neighbour he dealt with, and choused by every Tenant he trusted.
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
Next to a legacy, a good laugh is the best thing I know; indeed, sometimes it is better, for you can't be choused out of it by your lawyer.'
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever
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
