CHOUSE
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Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] [From Turk. ch&ā;&ū;sh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £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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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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