Hypertext Webster Gateway: "chouse"
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) 1.7 (wn)
chouse
v : defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
[syn: {cheat}, {shaft}, {screw}, {chicane}, {jockey}]
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