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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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defraud
English
Alternative forms
- defraude (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English defrauden, from Old French defrauder, from de- + frauder.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d?.?f???d/
- Rhymes: -??d
Verb
defraud (third-person singular simple present defrauds, present participle defrauding, simple past and past participle defrauded)
- (transitive) To obtain money or property from (a person) by fraud; to swindle.
- I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
- (archaic) To deprive.
- 1872, William Goodell, "On Conjugal Onanism and Kindred Sins", Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, vol. 9, page 63.
Related terms
- befraud
- defrauder
Translations
See also
- fraudster
Anagrams
- frauded
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