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Cozen vs Chouse - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between cozen and chouse

is that cozen is to cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way while chouse is to cheat, to trick.

As a noun chouse is

one who is easily cheated; a gullible person.

cozen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
  • * 1602 , , Act III, Scene 2,
    • What devil was't / That thus hath cozen'd you at hoodman-blind?
  • * , 1851, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor , Volume 1, page 895,
    • It is certain that children may be cozened into goodness, and sick men to health, and passengers in a storm into safety; and the reason of these is, — because not only the end is fair, and charitable, and just, but the means are such which do no injury to the persons which are to receive benefit;.
  • * 1866 , Spoils, By a Receiver'', Charles Chauncey Burr (editor), ''The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787 , Volume 4, page 497,
    • The man, too, who has been matrimonially cozened''''', "would all the world might be '''cozened'''," for he has been '''cozened''', and beaten too; but with him the cudgel is "hallowed;" he would "hang it o'er the altar;" perhaps for the reason given by the "Merry Wives of Windsor," because "it hath done meritorious service;" and no sooner is he, by a seemingly merciful disposition of Providence, released from the cudgeler, but he is in haste to be ' cozened and beaten again.
  • * 1914 , , The Gates of Doom , 2001, page 217,
    • But that you should have been cozened' with me, that my ' cozening should in part have been a natural sequel to your own, rather than an independent error of mine, is a helpful reflection to me in this dark hour.

    Usage notes

    Modern usage is generally to effect a dated style.

    Related terms

    * cozener * cozenage

    References

    * Webster's New School and Office Dictionary, copyright 1962 * "cozen" on Online Etymology Dictionary

    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)

    References

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