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 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

Indeed, Madam, why then to proceed: Fame says, that you and my most Conscionable Guardian here, design'd, contriv'd, plotted and agreed to chouse a very civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.

From The Busie Body by Byrd, Jess

‘I’m a dying man,’ he remarked finally, ‘but I’ll live long enough to chouse the taxes.’

From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew

The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.

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