chouse

== English == === Etymology 1 === Probably from Turkish çavuş. Doublet of chiaus. ==== Alternative forms ==== chiaus (obsolete) ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/ ==== Verb ==== chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused) (obsolete, transitive) To cheat, to trick. ===== Synonyms ===== (cheat): cheat, trick ==== Noun ==== chouse (plural chouses) (obsolete) One who is easily cheated; a gullible person. (obsolete) A trick; a sham. (obsolete) A swindler. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 2 === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) ==== Alternative forms ==== chowse ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /t͡ʃaʊ̯s/ ==== Verb ==== chouse (third-person singular simple present chouses, present participle chousing, simple past and past participle choused) (US, of cattle) To handle roughly, as by chasing or scaring. (US, regional) To handle, to take care of. (transitive, US, regional) To cause undesirable activity in livestock, such as running. [from late 19th c.] ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === References === “chouse”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “chouse”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. "chouse" in Walter W. Skeat, ed., An etymological dictionary of the English language, New ed., Oxford: The Clarendon press, 1910. p. 108. →OCLC. "chowse" in Stephen Skinner, Thomas Henshaw, ed., Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (in Latin), London: T. Roycroft, 1671, page unnumbered. →OCLC. === Anagrams === ouches, Ouches == Champenois == === Noun === chouse (Auve) thing === References === Tarbé, Prosper (1851), Recherches sur l'histoire du langage et des patois de Champagne‎[2] (in French), volume 1, Reims, page 109