chouse : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: chouse	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for chouse
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
chouse v defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Chouse \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Choused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Chousing}.] [From Turk. ch[be][d4]sh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of [9c]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.