to chouse

To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it. Chouse is also the term for a game like chuck-farthing.

Chouse
·noun A trick; sham; imposition. II. Chouse ·noun A <<Swindler>>. III. Chouse ·noun One who is eas...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
to chouse
The origin of this word has been referred by Etymologists to the Swed. kiusa, the old French joucher...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.