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
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 Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Mr. Arledge has to buy so many gold cigarettes and vintages and trouserings, and belong to so many clubs, that he wants the Court to help him chouse a poor grocer out of his money.
From The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation by Harry Leon Wilson
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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
A-settin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.
From The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree
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 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
I don't wonder at the risk I ran of being choused out of you; but it was rather too bad, too, was it not, Mrs. Peck?
From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Catherine Helen Spence
Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice, 'twill be mine.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
So it is, sir, by this sweet, honey language, I am choused out of my prizes, and must go on with my soap and razors and pincers and combs.
From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams
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
