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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Chouse  \Chouse\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Choused};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Chousing}.]  [From  Turk.  ch[=a][=u]sh  a  messenger  or 
  interpreter,  one  of  whom  attached  to  the  Turkish  embassy,  in 
  1609  cheated  the  Turkish  merchants  resident  in  England  out  of 
  [pounds]4,000.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Chouse  \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 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  chouse 
  v  :  defeat  someone  in  an  expectation  through  trickery  or  deceit 
  [syn:  {cheat},  {shaft},  {screw},  {chicane},  {jockey}] 




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