Chouse

Quick meaning: Chouse is a verb meaning (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.

Meaning

(US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.

More Meanings

1. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
2. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick.
4. (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
5. (obsolete) A trick; a sham.
6. (obsolete) A swindler.

Example Sentences

This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money

By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good court-hand more, If I discover . What do you think of me, That I am a chouse?

He that with injury is griev'd, And goes to law to be reliev'd, Is sillier than a sottish chouse Who , when a thief has robb'd his house, Applies himself to cunning men, To help him to his goods agen

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.

Word Forms

• chouses
• chousing
• choused
• chowse

Synonyms for chouse

Depending on context, synonyms include cheat, trick, chicane, screw, jockey, shaft.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chicane, cheat, shaft, jockey, screw, chowse.

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