Chouse

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chouse \Chouse\, n.
     1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
        --Hudibras.
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     2. A trick; sham; imposition. --Johnson.


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     3. A swindler. --B. Jonson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Chouse \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choused}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Chousing}.] [From Turk. ch[=a][=u]sh a messenger or
     interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in
     1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of
     [pounds]4,000.]
     To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as,
     to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]
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           The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused
           your highness.                           --Landor.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  chouse
       v : defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
           [syn: {cheat}, {shaft}, {screw}, {chicane}, {jockey}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  19 Moby Thesaurus words for "chouse":
     artifice, beat, bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, feint,
     flimflam, gambit, gimmick, gyp, jig, overreach, play, ploy, ruse,
     whizzer