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

The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

He fills mine pipe mit Limburg cheese,— Dot vas der roughest chouse: I'd dake dot vrom no oder poy But leedle Yawcob Strauss.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney

‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

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 Hood, Thomas