Definitions for chouses

chouses chouse

Spelling: [chous]
IPA: /tʃaʊs/

Chouses is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 111 anagrams from letters in chouses (cehossu).

Definitions for chouses

noun

  1. a swindle.
  2. Archaic. a swindler.
  3. Archaic. a dupe.

verb (used with object)

  1. to swindle; cheat (often followed by of or out of).

Origin of chouses

First recorded in 1600-10; perhaps to be identified with chiaus

Examples for chouses

“It was rather a chouse to shoot a cretin, though,” said another, in chaff.

And chouse poked and scratched and dug up the earth, but not a kitten did he find.

But when she got down and patted him, chouse still kept on barking.

chouse jumped out before the boat had even touched the bank.

She was afraid to ask her father what he was going to do with chouse.

chouse had run to the side of the road, looking for rabbits again.

chouse us out of the deer, say ye; and who had a right to hinder him if he had?

Joyously she ran across the courtyard, with chouse close at her heels.

And now, in ten minutes, this naughty chouse had undone all his work.

This was the first time she had forgotten it, but chouse hadn't forgotten.

Word Value for chouses
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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