Chouse, n. 1.
One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a
gull. Hudibras.
2. A trick; sham; imposition.
Johnson.
3. A swindler. B.
Jonson.
Chouse (?), v. t. [imp. &
p. p. Choused (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Chousing.] [From Turk.
chāūsh a messenger or interpreter, one of
whom, attached to the Turkish embassy, in 1609 cheated the
Turkish merchants resident in England out of £4,000.]
To cheat, trick, defraud; -- followed by of, or
out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.
[Colloq.]
The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath
choused your highness.
Landor.