chouse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To cheat, to trick.

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

2. 2
   noun

   One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.

   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

Probably from Turkish çavuş. Doublet of chiaus.

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