Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word
Citations:chowse. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word
Citations:chowse, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say
Citations:chowse in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word
Citations:chowse you have here. The definition of the word
Citations:chowse will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition of
Citations:chowse, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
Verb: obsolete spelling of chouse ("to cheat, to swindle")
|
|
|
|
1671 1680
|
1706 1753
|
|
|
|
| ME «
|
15th c.
|
16th c.
|
17th c.
|
18th c.
|
19th c.
|
20th c.
|
21st c.
|
- "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, […]
Verb: dated spelling of chouse ("to hunt")
1949 June 13, W. W. Johnson, “Lifes reports: Texas Eagle 'Chowser' ”, in Life, volume 26, number 24, Chicago: Time, →ISSN, page 7:"This afternoon," he said, "I'm going out and chowse some eagles."