The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
CHOUSE
cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)
(obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.
Synonyms
• (cheat): cheat, trick
Noun
chouse (plural chouses)
(obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
(obsolete) A trick; a sham.
(obsolete) A swindler.
Etymology 2
Verb
chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)
(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
(transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. [from late 19th c.]
Anagrams
• ouches
Source: Wiktionary
Chouse, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused; p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] Etym: [From Turk. cha\'d4sh 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.]
Definition: 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.
Chouse, n.
1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.
2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.
3. A swindler. B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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