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Gull vs Chouse - What's the difference?

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Gull is a related term of chouse.


As nouns the difference between gull and chouse

is that gull is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with while chouse is one who is easily cheated; a gullible person.

As a verb chouse is

to cheat, to trick.

gull

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gulle, ultimately from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A seabird of the genus Larus or of the family Laridae.
  • Synonyms
    * (seabird) mew, seagull

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from an obsolete term

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
  • * 1599 ,
  • BENEDICK. [Aside] I should think this a gull , but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, sure, hide itself in such reverence.
  • One easily cheated; a dupe.
  • Synonyms
    * (dupe) See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To deceive or cheat.
  • * Dryden
  • The vulgar, gulled into rebellion, armed.
  • * Coleridge
  • I'm not gulling him for the emperor's service.
  • * 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene I, verse 162-165
  • speak your curses out
    Against me, who would sooner crush and grind
    A brace of toads, than league with them to oppress
    An innocent lady, gull an Emperor
  • (US, slang) To mislead.
  • (US, slang) To trick and defraud.
  • Derived terms
    * gullible * gullibility

    References

    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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