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Definition of Chouse
1. Verb. Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.
Generic synonyms: Beat, Beat Out, Crush, Shell, Trounce, Vanquish
Derivative terms: Cheat, Cheater, Chicane, Chicanery
Definition of Chouse
1. v. t. To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
2. n. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
Definition of Chouse
1. Verb. (transitive) To cheat, trick ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chouse
1. to swindle [v CHOUSED, CHOUSING, CHOUSES] - See also: swindle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chouse
Literary usage of Chouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"chouse. The history of the introduction of this word into the popular language
... spelt ' chouse ' to look more English) became equivalent to a swindler, ..."
2. The History of Hillsborough, New Hampshire, 1735-1921 by George Waldo Browne (1921)
"Timothy Bradford William Pope chouse tything men Illy Samuel Jones James Jones
... to Buld a Brige over the Rever this Present year Idly Voted to chouse a ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1872)
"The localities along the line of a railroad may be taxed to aid its construction
and operation, if they chouse to take ..."
4. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"... Cotgrave : chouse; f. A hose, a stocking, or nether-ttact (his de chause),
also a breek, or breech, in which sense it is most commonly ..."
5. The Crime of Caste in Our Country: Americans Enforce Equality. No Sham by Benjamin Rush Davenport (1893)
":V'' • , • • poor widow chouse he had THE CRMB OF CASTE. family, and eon Southern
landed proprie^s to the Presidency, he es^she etiquette. ..."
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