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chouse

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Probably from Turkish çavuş.[1] Doublet of chiaus.

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb edit

chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.[2]
    • 1774, Samuel Foote, The Cozeners:
      This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money
    • c. 1824-1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Imaginary Conversations”, in J. Forster, editor, The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 1, published 1853, 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.
    • 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan, Harper, Chapter IV, page 46:
      They never like you half so well as when you bring your men with you: they don't want officers so much as men; and some of the commands, if they can chouse you out of your recruits, will not stop to do so; and then you may whistle for your commission.
Synonyms edit

Noun edit

chouse (plural chouses)

  1. (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.[3]
  2. (obsolete) A trick; a sham.[4]
  3. (obsolete) A swindler.[5]

Etymology 2 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Verb edit

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.
    • 1980, John R. Erickson, Panhandle Cowboy‎[1], page 79:
      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.
  3. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. [from late 19th c.]
    • 1940 April 9, John Owen, “[letter to] Paul J. Kilday”, in [Relief of] John Owen, quoted in United States congressional serial set, 76th Congress, 3rd session (January 3, 1940—January 3, 1941), miscellaneous volume 3, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, published 1940-05-24, →ISSN, 76th Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Claims, report number 2293, page 12 of report:
      […] 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.
Translations edit

References edit

  1. ^ "chouse." Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 2008.
  2. ^ “chouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  3. ^ “chouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  4. ^ “chouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  5. ^ “chouse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams edit

Champenois edit

Noun edit

chouse

  1. (Auve) thing

References edit

  • Tarbé, Prosper (1851) Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎[2] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109
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