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

Ne'er think of that, and try the hunks to chouse.

From Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete by La Fontaine, Jean de

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 Murfree, Mary Noailles

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

G. Text has "et ce est mout sçue chouse"; Pauthier's Text, "mais il est moult celé" The latter seems absurd.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Yule, Henry