What does "chouse" mean?
One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
Chouse
/t͡ʃaʊ̯s/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
- Grammar: chouse is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: cheat, artifice, beat, beguile.
- Useful contrasts: fair dealing, honesty.
- Usage evidence: This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who is easily cheated; a gullible person. obsolete
"He that with injury is griev'd, And goes to law to be reliev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse Who , when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods agen"
- 2 A trick; a sham. obsolete
- 3 A swindler. obsolete
"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?"
Verb
- 1 To cheat, to trick. obsolete, transitive
"This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money"
- 2 To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring. US
- 3 defeat someone through trickery or deceit wordnet
- 4 To handle, to take care of. US, regional
"This gave the roundup the appearance of a cavalry charge, and a stranger observing the procedure for the first time might have thought we were a bunch of green, possibly drunken cowboys making sport out of chousing cattle. But we weren't chousing them, we were just trying to keep them in sight, and for a very good reason."
- 5 To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. US, regional, transitive
"[…] but the fact remains that my range cattle, because of the chousing which they received at the hands of the troops and the fright that they had, were caused to go into a period of considerable range deficiency without the flesh with which they should have entered this period."
Antonyms
fair dealinghonesty
Example
"This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "chouse"?
Common synonyms include: cheat, artifice, beat, beguile, bilk, bilk.
How do you use "chouse" in a sentence?
This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
How do you pronounce "chouse"?
Pronounced /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/.
Etymology
Probably from Turkish çavuş. Doublet of chiaus.