Chouse vs Defraud - What's the difference?
chouse | defraud | 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 obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
Chouse is a related term of defraud.
As verbs the difference between chouse and defraud
is that chouse is to cheat, to trick while defraud is to obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.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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