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

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

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

Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for "Titus Andronicus," the only play—ain't it?—that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tried to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.

From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark

I don't think he intends to chouse us," said Bourdin, in a low tone to his companion; "let us do as he wishes, or we'll never get away.

From Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Sue, Eugène

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