Citations:chowse
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English citations of chowse
Verb: obsolete spelling of chouse ("to cheat, to swindle")[edit]
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- "chowse" in Stephen Skinner, Thomas Henshaw, ed., Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae (in Latin), London: T. Roycroft, 1671, page unnumbered. →OCLC.
- 1680, Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, The English rogue: continued in the life of Meriton Latroon, and other extravangants, part 4, London: F. Kirkman, →OCLC, page 40:
- Madam, put these Tricks and Gulleries upon others, and not upon me, who can ſee through all your diſguiſes, what do you intend, or think to chowſe me in this manner?
- 1706 August 3, Charles Leslie, A view of the times, their principles and practices: in the rehearsals, volume 2, number 127, London: W. Bowen, →OCLC, page 300:
- Shall chance ſupercede nature? And if nature has given me more ſtrength or cunning than you, why was that, but to make uſe of it? And either to chowſe you, or beat you out of what I think more convenient for my ſelf?
- 1753, Desiderius Erasmus, The apophthegms of the ancients: being an historical collection of the most celebrated, elegant, pithy and prudential sayings of all the illustrious personages of antiquity, volume 1, London: A. Millar, →OCLC, page 120:
- Socrates did not think, that ſuch as ſhould chowſe people out of either their plate or money, even if they thought themſelves never capable of making reſtitution, were equally deſerving the name of impostors, […]