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chose
English
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ch?z, IPA(key): /t???z/
- (US) enPR: ch?z, IPA(key): /t?o?z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Verb
chose
- simple past tense of choose
- (now colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of choose
Etymology 2
From Middle French chose, from Latin causa (“cause, reason”). Doublet of cause.
Noun
chose (plural choses)
- (law) A thing; personal property.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Choes, HCEOs, So-ch'e, choes, echos, oches
French
Etymology
From Old French chose, from Latin causa. Compare Italian cosa, Portuguese coisa, Spanish cosa among many others. Compare cause, a borrowed doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?oz/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): [?ou?z]
- Rhymes: -oz
Noun
chose f (plural choses)
- thing
- Synonym: truc
- 1580, Michel de Montaigne, De la cruauté, Essais
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
- The Agrigentines had a common use solemnly to inter the beasts they had a kindness for, as horses of some rare quality, dogs, and useful birds, and even those that had only been kept to divert their children; and the magnificence that was ordinary with them in all other things, also particularly appeared in the sumptuosity and numbers of monuments erected to this end, and which remained in their beauty several ages after.
- Les Agrigentins avaient en usage commun d’enterrer sérieusement les bêtes qu’ils avaient eu chères, comme les chevaux de quelque rare mérite, les chiens et les oiseaux utiles, ou même qui avaient servi de passe-temps à leurs enfants : et la magnificence qui leur était ordinaire en toutes autres choses paraissait aussi singulièrement à la somptuosité et nombre de monuments élevés à cette fin, qui ont duré en parade plusieurs siècles depuis.
Descendants
- ? German: Chose
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chose” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- échos
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French chose, cose.
Noun
chose f (plural choses)
- thing
Descendants
- French: chose
Norman
Alternative forms
- (Saint Ouen) chôthe
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Adjective
chose m or f
- (Jersey) self-conscious
Old French
Alternative forms
- cosa (very early Old French)
- cose (chiefly Old Northern French)
Etymology
From earlier cose, cosa, inherited from Latin causa. Compare cause.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?t??.z?]
Noun
chose f (oblique plural choses, nominative singular chose, nominative plural choses)
- thing (miscellaneous object or concept)
Descendants
- Middle French: chose
- French: chose
- Walloon: tchôze
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chouse
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)
- (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.
- c. 1824-1829, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations, 1853, J. Forster (editor), The Works of Walter Savage Landor, Volume 1, page 29,
Synonyms
- (cheat): cheat, trick
Noun
chouse (plural chouses)
- (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
- (obsolete) A trick; a sham.
- (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?
- By this hand of flesh,
- 1610, Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
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)
- (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
- (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
- (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
- (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
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