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
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
‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
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
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
Nay, good sir devil, replied the farmer; how can I be said to have choused you, since it was your worship that chose first?
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
I'm had—yes, and tricked, choused, slanged, and banged!
From Fontainbleau by John O'Keeffe
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
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 Émile Zola
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
