Citations:chowsed
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English citations of chowsed
Verb[edit]
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- 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,
- 1740?, Thomas Pellow, edited by Robert Brown, The adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, mariner, London: T. Fisher, published 1890, →OCLC, page 233:
- How a Moorish highway robber is chowsed
- a. 1794, Daniel Isaac Eaton, Politics for the people; or, A salmagundy for swine, 4th edition, volume 1, London: printed for D.I. Eaton, published 1794, →OCLC, page 83:
- […] and then it has happened, that the true patriots of their country, ſeeing how baſeley they have been chowſed of their freedom, and unable to refrain from that liberty of ſpeech and life, in which they were brought up, […]
- 1851, Samuel S. Haldeman, Elements of Latin pronunciation for the use of students, Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, →OCLC, page 30, n. 120:
- 1895, anonymous author, Jack Westropp: an autobiography, volume 1, London: Downey, →OCLC, page 112:
- […] by token Id have rote sooner but was thryin to make shure twas yourself was in it for betune you and I theres a power of blaggards goin theres won bad member chowsed me out of fifteen pounds lettin on to be young Dan and dun me a durty turn […]
- 1904 July 28, “Surplus revenue bill”, in parliamentary debates (Victorian Legislative Assembly)[1], page 535:
- Mr. GAUNSON said he would sit in any part of the Chamber he liked, and was not going to be "chowsed" out of his position by any honorable member on the Opposition benches.