Citations:chowsing

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English citations of chowsing

Verb: "cheating, swindling"

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  • 1792, John Croft, editor, Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany, Sans Souci [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 14:
    [] in his discourse on the heinous sins of chowsing, cheating, and defrauding one's neighbours, []
  • 1822, Samuel Butler, edited by Robert Thyer, The genuine remains of Samuel Butler, new, corrected and enlarged edition, volume 1, London: C. Baldwyn, →OCLC, page 281:
    All feats of arms are now reduc'd
    To chowsing, or to being chows'd,
    And no rencounters so renown'd
    As those on walls and underground.
  • 1869 May, An old Tory (pseud.), “Self government in Ireland”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine[1], volume 105, number 643, London: William Blackwood, →ISSN, page 636:
    [] we entirely condemn and object to Mr Lowe's device for chowsing us out of a quarter's payment, by the juggle of shifting the period in which our returns are to be made up []