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
This done, under her unflagging supervision, the model was replaced; fourpence changed hands, and the glazier went his way, saying, as he made his exit:—"That was a chouse, mistress."
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan
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
The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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 tries to chouse him out of, the Baconians included.
From Is Shakespeare Dead? From my autobiography. by Mark Twain
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
Split me asunder if he would not say that I had choused him!
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Phil Haddin's not so easily choused, I promise you.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown
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
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
