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noun: "a swindler"
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1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts: a novel, volume 2, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 78:That was not the practice of worldly wisdom, and, in short, he was a young man born to be choused, hoodwinked, and borrowed from. The chousers and borrowers mistook him for a fool naturally enough, […]
1898, William Farquhar Payson, The title-mongers, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 200:There he sat, and, as the editor of The Labour Leader had once in a splurge of applauded demagogy more or less truthfully proclaimed, he seemed "a big, blatant, coarse caricature, a rough, tough chouser of workers and widows, a monumental money-maker, a damner of the public, who washed his gold in the life-blood of men."
1920 November 10, K., “Unauthentic impressions”, in Punch, or the London Charivari, volume 159, number 10, London, →ISSN:I have heard him spoken of as a charlatan, as a chameleon, as a chatterbox, and, by a man who had hoped that the Kaiser would be hanged in Piccadilly Circus, as a chouser.
1960, Washington squirrel cage, Washington, DC: Columbia, →OCLC:A White House stenog got an $8,000 mink coat for services rendered to smart and high-class chousers of the government.
noun: "an official"
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1794, John Payne, “The manner in which causes are tried and punished in algiers; with the treatment of slaves”, in Universal geography formed into a new and entire system; describing Asia, Africa, Europe, and America , volume 1, Dublin: Z. Jackson, →OCLC, page 730:In caſes of debt, the debtor is usually detained in priſon till the chouſers or bailiffs have ſeized upon and ſold his effects; […]
Noun: "a cowboy"
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1985 October, Richard G. Lillard, “English Creek (Book Review)”, in Journal of Forest History, volume 29, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 189–190:[…] a whole cross-section of old and young-Forest Service employees, year-round or seasonal, sheep and cattle ranchers, cowboys ("cow chousers"), […]
Noun: "a hunter"
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1968, “”, in Pennsylvania Game News, volume 39, number 1, Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Game Commission, →ISSN, page 1:And similar numbers of cottontail chousers were stomping the frozen swamps back then, too, lured on by the utter simplicity of a hunt for what has to be our commonest — and therefore in some ways our greatest — game animal.