[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chouse \chouse\, n.
   1. one who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
      --hudibras.
      1913 webster

   2. a trick; sham; imposition. --johnson.
      1913 webster

   3. a swindler. --b. jonson.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

chouse \chouse\, v. t. imp.  p. p. choused; p. pr.  vb. n.
   chousing. from turk. ch=a=ush a messenger or
   interpreter, one of whom, attached to the turkish embassy, in
   1609 cheated the turkish merchants resident in england out of
   pounds4,000.
   to cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as,
   to chouse one out of his money. colloq.
   1913 webster

         the undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused
         your highness.                           --landor.
   1913 webster
see also:
choused chousing 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

chouse
     v : defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
         syn: cheat, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey
see also:
cheat shaft screw chicane jockey 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

19 moby thesaurus words for "chouse":
   artifice, beat, bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, feint,
   flimflam, gambit, gimmick, gyp, jig, overreach, play, ploy, ruse,
   whizzer

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