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

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

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

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

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

Don’t say it was a dirty trick—say it was a beastly chouse, or something of that sort.

From We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty