different between cheat vs chouse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?i?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.

Verb

cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)

1. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.

   Synonym: break the rules

2. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.

3. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.

4. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.

   Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).

Noun

cheat (plural cheats)

1. Someone who cheats.

   Synonym: (informal) cheater

2. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.

   Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
3. The weed cheatgrass.
4. (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

   Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it

5. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
   • 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)

     I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

Synonyms

• double play

Translations

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? French: cheat
• ? German: Cheat

Further reading

• cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca

French

Etymology

English cheat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?it/

Noun

cheat m (plural cheats)

1. (video games) cheat

English

Etymology 1

Probably from Turkish çavu?. Doublet of chiaus.

Alternative forms

• chiaus (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a??s/

Verb

chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.
   • c. 1824-1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 1853, J. Forster (editor), The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 1, page 29,

     I cannot think otherwise than that the undertaker of the aforecited poesy hath choused your Highness; for I have seen painted, I know not where, the identically same Dian, with full as many nymphs, as he calls them, and more dogs.

Synonyms

• (cheat): cheat, trick

Noun

chouse (plural chouses)

1. (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
2. (obsolete) A trick; a sham.
3. (obsolete) A swindler.
   • 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist

     By this hand of flesh,
     Would it might never write good court-hand more,
     If I discover . What do you think of me,
     That I am a chouse?

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• chowse

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??a??s/

Verb

chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)

1. (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
2. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
3. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. [from late 19th c.]

Translations

References

• chouse at OneLook Dictionary Search
• chouse in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• chouse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• "chouse" in Walter W. Skeat, ed., An etymological dictionary of the English language, New ed., Oxford: The Clarendon press, 1910. p. 108. ?OCLC.
• "chowse" in Stephen Skinner, Thomas Henshaw, ed., Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (in Latin), London: T. Roycroft, 1671, page unnumbered. ?OCLC.

Anagrams

• ouches

Champenois

Noun

chouse

1. (Auve) thing

References

• Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne?^[2] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109