Chouse

Origin

Probably from Turkish çavuş.

"chouse." Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 2008.

Full definition of chouse

Verb

1. (transitive) To cheat, trick
• 1835, s:Author:William Gilmore Simms, s:The Partisan, 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.
• LandorThe undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness.

Synonyms

• (cheat) cheat, trick

Noun

1. One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
2. A trick; a sham.
3. A swindler.

Anagrams

• ouches