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chouse¹

  • /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/

Where it comes from

Probably from Turkish çavuş. Doublet of chiaus.

verb chouses · chousing · choused · chiaus

  1. obsolete, transitive To cheat, to trick. This is some conspiracy, I suppose, to bam, to chouse me out of my money

    Similar: cheat, trick

noun chouses · chiaus

  1. obsolete 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
  2. obsolete A trick; a sham.
  3. obsolete A swindler. 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?

chouse²

  • /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/

verb chouses · chousing · choused · chowse

  1. US, of cattle To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring.
  2. US, regional To handle, to take care of. 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
  3. US, regional, transitive To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. […] 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.

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verb (of cattle) disturb, agitate

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@misc{chouse_2026,
  title = {chouse},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/chouse},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}