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chouse
(encz) | chouse,podvod n: Zdeněk Brož |
chouse
(encz) | chouse,švindl Zdeněk Brož |
Chouse
(gcide) | Chouse \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chousing.] [From Turk. ch[=a][=u]sh a messenger or
interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in
1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of
[pounds]4,000.]
To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as,
to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]
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The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused
your highness. --Landor.
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Chouse
(gcide) | Chouse \Chouse\, n.
1. One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
--Hudibras.
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2. A trick; sham; imposition. --Johnson.
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3. A swindler. --B. Jonson.
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chouse
(wn) | chouse
v 1: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat,
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
chouse
(encz) | chouse,podvod n: Zdeněk Brožchouse,švindl Zdeněk Brož |
Choused
(gcide) | Chouse \Chouse\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Choused; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chousing.] [From Turk. ch[=a][=u]sh a messenger or
interpreter, one of whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in
1609 cheated the Turkish merchants resident in England out of
[pounds]4,000.]
To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or out of; as,
to chouse one out of his money. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster]
The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused
your highness. --Landor.
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chouse
(wn) | chouse
v 1: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat,
chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey] |
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