chouse

Example Sentences

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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

But Luff contrived a novel mode His creditors to chouse; For his own execution he Put into his own house!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas

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 Wells, Carolyn

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 Adams, Andy

The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.

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