Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Turkish interpreter, messenger, or attendant.
- n. A trick; a sham; an imposition.
- n. An impostor; a cheat.
- n. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton.
- To cheat; trick; swindle: often followed by of or out of: as, to chouse one out of his money.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive To cheat, trick
- n. One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
- n. A trick; a sham.
- n. A swindler.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by
of , orout of . - n. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
- n. A trick; sham; imposition.
- n. A swindler.
WordNet 3.0
- v. defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Etymologies
- Probably from Turkish çavuş. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“[The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century.”
“Nobel was a famous dude who produced weapons and axplosives. now bet what kind of joke it is when someone will ask him to be the candidate for Nobels prise. wich one will he chouse?”
“For without freedom we all loose the ability to chouse our words, our loves, and our lives.”
Think Progress » Note to Rep. Virgil Goode: Keith Ellison Is Not An Immigrant
““And why would he send a dern girl all the way up here to chouse us?””
“Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice,”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way.”
“They are naturally prone to Rebellion, have let the _Cormorants_ chouse them out of several valuable Branches of their Commerce; and yet the _Cormorants_ are People with whom they have kept the most lasting Friendship of all their Neighbours.”
“_ 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”
“Contrivance, to abuse, trick, and chouse me of my Child!”
“Mr. Arledge has to buy so many gold cigarettes and vintages and trouserings, and belong to so many clubs, that he wants the Court to help him chouse a poor grocer out of his money.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chouse’.
-
phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
-
Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
-
Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
-
Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
-
Gil Blas
Interesting words and usages from Smollett's 1749 translation of Lesage's L'Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane
reck, durance, rhodomontade, hangdog, trap, lustre, pin, boggle, dandle, birthday suit, colic, gripes and 238 more...
-
Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
-
today's word
copemate, quiddity, ere, maugre, argal, cultivar, exurb, spokesmodel, rollick, logy, cadastral, corpulent and 259 more...
-
Annsley's list
churlish, bibulous, salt, salty, conjugal, fabulist, maw, primordial, chimera, emetic, surly, excrescence and 228 more...
-
Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
-
Personal glossary
pasquinade, dilatory, afflatus, expatiate, cambric, mantua, marplot, henotic, brio, hebetude, pertinacious, demijohn and 79 more...
-
Duped
Those who are easily duped.
cully, cull, gudgeon, gull, gull-gallant, chouse, geck, chump, fall guy, mark, fool, mug and 39 more...
-
The Grifters
You're on the grift, same as me.
cheater, cheat, deceiver, deluder, dissimulator, swindler, faker, fleecer, flimflammer, fraud, fraudster, hustler and 81 more...
-
Just kidding
Words that mean joke
chouse, dido, antic, roguery, ropery, apery, daft, jape, shavie, razz, quipster, morology
-
Musa Pedestris
Words and phrases encountered in "Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes 1536–1896, Collected and Annotated by John S. Farmer". Definitions are taken from either the "1736 Dictionary o...
bastonading, bilk, burn the ken, butter, chive his darbies, chouse, cleyms, click, cog, run a crimp, dawb, teague-land and 28 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chouse.
yarb The pirate seemed to chuckle at so successful a drag; and the scoundrel, not contented with chousing us of our cash, insulted us with his infernal Moorish witticisms: but the edge of his satire was not half so keen as the dire necessity which made us the subject of it.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 5 ch. 1 Sep 19, 2008