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
And now, when he might have left me the mill-house he must needs marry this widow Garcia and set to work forthwith to chouse me out of my inheritance!
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Around an ancient pedigree There is a halo fair to see, With "unwrung withers" we afford Our salutation to milord, As due unto his ancient house, Albeit his lordship be a chouse.
From Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) by Gay, John
‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
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
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
Lookee, Sophy," answered the squire, "I am not to be choused in this manner.
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
Blanch has a good Understanding, but does not know the World, and is commonly choused by her Neighbours.
He jolly well choused himself, he did, if he thought he could make us sit up with his roast-meat story!
From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile
To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
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 Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
