Chouse

·noun A trick; sham; imposition.

II. Chouse ·noun A Swindler.

III. Chouse ·noun One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.

IV. Chouse ·vt To cheat, trick, defraud;

— followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money.

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

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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.