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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Choused

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Chousing

[From Turk.

chāūsh

a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4,000.]

To cheat, trick, defraud; – followed by of, or out of;

as, to

chouse

one out of his money

[Colloq.]

The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath

choused

your highness.

Landor.

Noun.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

Hudibras.

A trick; sham; imposition.

Johnson.

A swindler.

B. Jonson.

Verb.

To cheat, trick, defraud; followed by of, in Hudibras; but in America, by out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

Noun.

One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton.

A trick; sham; imposition.