chowsed
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[edit]Verb
[edit]chowsed
- simple past and past participle of chowse
- a. 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, corrected and amended, with several additions and annotations edition, first part, London: Sawbridge [u.a.], published 1709, →OCLC, pages 133, lines 1009–1010:
- He ſtole your cloak, and pick'd your pocket,
Chowſ'd and caldeſ'd you like a blockhead,
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:chowsed.