cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
(verb) defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Source: WordNet® 3.1
chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)
(obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.
• (cheat): cheat, trick
chouse (plural chouses)
(obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
(obsolete) A trick; a sham.
(obsolete) A swindler.
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.]
• 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
26 March 2025
(noun) bandage consisting of a firm covering (often made of plaster of Paris) that immobilizes broken bones while they heal
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