Chouse vs Beguile - What's the difference?

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Chouse is a related term of beguile.

In lang=en terms the difference between chouse and beguile

is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while beguile is to charm, delight or captivate.

As verbs the difference between chouse and beguile

is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while beguile is to deceive or delude (using guile).

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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Anagrams

beguile

English

Alternative forms

Verb

(beguil)

To deceive or delude (using guile).

* , II, II, 102.

I know, sir, I am no flatterer: he that beguiled you, in a plain accent, was a plain knave.

To charm, delight or captivate.

* 1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston

I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.

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