different between chuse vs chouse

English

Verb

chuse (third-person singular simple present chuses, present participle chusing or chuseing, simple past and past participle chused)

1. Obsolete spelling of choose
   • 1739 David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature: Book II:

     Secondly, When in exerting any passion in action, we chuse means insufficient for the design'd end, and deceive ourselves in our judgment of causes and effects.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chuse.

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

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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