chouse

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

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; Ð often with out.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

But if you want me to cut him out of your string of eligibles, say the word, and I'll chouse him out.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams

Quoth he, If you will give me leave To tell you what I now perceive, You'll find yourself an arrant chouse, If y' were but at a Meeting-House.

From Hudibras by Samuel Butler

Whereof I be all in a quandary, for it do seem I wus within an ames ace of a havin bin chouse flickur'd meself.

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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 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

All's planned, For the cook of the stew to be canned Out o' hand, When the due to be choused understand!

From Guns of the Gods by Talbot Mundy

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

My gentleman must have been nicely choused by somebody.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

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