chouse Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb defeat someone through trickery or deceit
    shaft; chicane; screw; cheat; jockey.

WordNet

Chouse transitive verb
Etymology
From Turk. chaush 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.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Choused ; present participle & verbal noun Chousing
Definitions
  1. 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.
Chouse noun
Definitions
  1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull. Hudibras.
  2. A trick; sham; imposition. Johnson.
  3. A swindler. B. Jonson.

Webster 1913