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chouse vt. 欺骗,诈骗
n. 瞒着,欺骗 欺骗,诈骗瞒着,欺骗 chouse v 1: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [ synonym: { cheat}, { chouse}, { shaft}, { screw}, { chicane}, { jockey}] Chouse \ Chouse\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Choused}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Chousing}.] [ From Turk. ch[= a][= u] sh a messenger or interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of [ pounds] 4, 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]
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] 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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