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

Quoth he, If you will give me leave To tell you what I now perceive, You'll find yourself an arrant chouse, If y' were but at a Meeting-House.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

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

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

A-set-tin' the law ter chouse a old man out'n money, fur gittin' mad an' sayin' ye stole his only darter.

From His "Day In Court" 1895 by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice, 'twill be mine.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Motteux, Peter Anthony