Online Dictionary: translate word or phrase from Indonesian to English or vice versa, and also from english to english on-line.
Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Chousing (0.02327 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Chousing.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: chouse
chouse
v : defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit
[syn:
cheat,
shaft,
screw,
chicane,
jockey]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Chousing
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.
[1913 Webster]
Advertisement