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Chouse vs Bamboozle - What's the difference?

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Chouse is a related term of bamboozle.


As verbs the difference between chouse and bamboozle

is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while bamboozle is (informal) to con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.

As a noun chouse

is one who is easily cheated; a gullible person.

chouse

English

Verb

  • To cheat, to trick.
  • * '', 1853, J. Forster (editor), ''The Works of Walter Savage Landor , Volume 1, page 29,
    • 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.
  • *
  • (US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
  • * 1980 , John R. Erickson, Panhandle Cowboy , page 79,
    • 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 for a very good reason.

    Synonyms

    * (cheat) cheat, trick

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
    • (Hudibras)
  • A trick; a sham.
    • (Johnson)
  • A swindler.
    • (Ben Jonson)
    (Webster 1913)

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    bamboozle

    English

    Verb

    (bamboozl)
  • (informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  • * 1851 ,
  • *:“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”