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

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 Henry Yule

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

The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley

“As plain as a pike-staff,” said Bliss; “and you’re a little brick, Evson; and it’s a chouse if any one suspects Elgood any more.”

From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw

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

To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

But the Mayor is not going to be choused out of his guests; don't you believe it!

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by William Delisle Hay

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

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