CHOUSING
Verb
chousing
present participle of chouse
Anagrams
• hocusing
Source: Wiktionary
CHOUSE
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 ÂŁ4,000.]
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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