CHOUSE

v. n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. Landor.

2.
n.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.

3.
n.

A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.

4.
n.

A swindler. B. Jonson.


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