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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)

  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

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dupe

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /dju?p/
  • Hyphenation: dupe

Etymology 1

From French duper, from Middle French duppe.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

  1. A person who has been deceived.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:dupe
Related terms
  • dupery
Translations

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

  1. To swindle, deceive, or trick.
Translations

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of duplicate.

Noun

dupe (plural dupes)

  1. (photography) A duplicate of a photographic image.
  2. (restaurant industry) A duplicate of an order receipt printed for kitchen staff.
  3. (informal) A duplicate.

Verb

dupe (third-person singular simple present dupes, present participle duping, simple past and past participle duped)

  1. (transitive) To duplicate.
Synonyms
  • double; see also Thesaurus:duplicate
Antonyms
  • dedupe, halve

Anagrams

  • E'd up, pued

Bube

Noun

dupe

  1. ghost

Descendants

  • English: duppy

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French dupe, from Middle French [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?dyp?/
  • Hyphenation: du?pe

Noun

dupe m (plural dupes)

  1. victim

Synonyms

  • slachtoffer

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dyp/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): /dz?p/

Verb

dupe

  1. first-person singular present indicative of duper
  2. third-person singular present indicative of duper
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of duper
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of duper
  5. second-person singular imperative of duper

Noun

dupe f (plural dupes)

  1. A person who has been deceived, see dupe.

Further reading

  • “dupe” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dup?

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dûpe/

Noun

d?pe n (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

  1. (vulgar) ass
    Synonym: gùzica

Declension

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