Chouse vs Circumvent - What's the difference?
chouse | circumvent | Related terms |
To cheat, to trick.
* '', 1853, J. Forster (editor), ''The Works of Walter Savage Landor , Volume 1,
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(US, regional) To handle, to take care of.
* 1980 , John R. Erickson, Panhandle Cowboy ,
One who is easily cheated; a gullible person.
A trick; a sham.
A swindler.
to avoid or get around something; to bypass
to surround or besiege
to outwit or outsmart
Chouse is a related term of circumvent.
In lang=en terms the difference between chouse and circumvent
is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while circumvent is to outwit or outsmart.As verbs the difference between chouse and circumvent
is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while circumvent is to avoid or get around something; to bypass.As a noun chouse
is one who is easily cheated; a gullible person.chouse
English
Verb
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.
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, trickNoun
(en noun)- (Hudibras)
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- (Ben Jonson)
