Lexicographical Neighbors of Choused
Literary usage of Choused
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1855)
"... and there spent almost all he had got, and hath now choused this Colborne out
of his house, that he might come to his old trade again. ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of four thousand pounds,
and had decamped. The affair was quite recent when Jonson's Alchemist ..."
3. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...: The Diary Deciphered by the by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke, John A. Smith (1866)
"... and there spent almost all he had got, and hath now choused this Colborne out
of his house, that he might come to his old trade again. ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"The judge held them to it, and they were choused of the treble value. 1833. ...
only to 6nd herself, borrowing the slang phrases of the day, 1 choused, ..."
5. A Collection of Farces and Other Afterpieces: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald (1815)
"Why should not my friend be choused out of a little justice for the first time ?
... What, am I choused again ! Sir Pat. And your trote too; ..."
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