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欺诈,诈骗;
瞒骗,欺骗;
verb (1)
transitive verb
cheat, trick
verb (2)
transitive verb
to drive or herd roughly
"骗子,冒名顶替者",约1600年; 还有"容易被骗的人"(1640年代); "欺诈,诡计,骗局,欺骗"(1708年),这是一个过时的词,据说来自土耳其 chaush "中士,传令兵,信使",但意义联系不清楚。《世纪词典》称土耳其语源自阿拉伯语 khawas,源自印地语 khawas "侍从"。也用作动词,表示"欺骗,诈骗"(1650年代)。
Verb (1) perhaps from Turkish çavuş doorkeeper, messenger Verb (2) origin unknown
The first known use of chouse was circa 1659
1 He's a good fellow, Ele is," said Belch; "but he's largely interested, and he'll probably try to chouse us out of something by affecting superior influence.
2 And now, when he might have left me the mill-house he must needs marry this widow Garcia and set to work forthwith to chouse me out of my inheritance!
3 The scheme is for the Government to chouse the Indians out of this section of country by hook or by crook—then mining concessions will be granted to the wire-pullers and their friends.
4 The history of chouse exemplifies the same tendency.
5 "And very right, too, if you were choused; but amongst prigs and cracksmen there's honour,—we must rely on each other, or all business would be impossible."
6 And he choused me out of my shot.”
7 My gentleman must have been nicely choused by somebody.
8 But the Mayor is not going to be choused out of his guests; don't you believe it!
9 Take ’em by force from old yellow-face, if you can’t get ’em otherwise; but you may ‘chouse’ him out of them at a game of helga, you know you can beat him at that.
10 Dine at the Cross off steak tough as horse, And charged at the rate of a crown for a course; With bills ever high, and bows ever low, You shall have chousing wherever you go.
11 I don't wonder at the risk I ran of being choused out of you; but it was rather too bad, too, was it not, Mrs. Peck?
12 an open-air bazaar where generations of unwary tourists have been choused
13 This makes him venture to talk and scribble, as chouses do to play with cunning gamesters until they are cheated and laughed at.
14 Ne'er think of that, and try the hunks to chouse.
15 From London they come, silly people to chouse, Their lands and their faces unknown: Who'd vote a rogue into the parliament-house, That would turn a man out of his own?
16 He jolly well choused himself, he did, if he thought he could make us sit up with his roast-meat story!
17 Next to a legacy, a good laugh is the best thing I know; indeed, sometimes it is better, for you can't be choused out of it by your lawyer.'
18 What was this your Contrivance, to abuse, trick, and chouse me of my Child!
19 All's planned, For the cook of the stew to be canned Out o' hand, When the due to be choused understand!
20 I don't think he intends to chouse us," said Bourdin, in a low tone to his companion; "let us do as he wishes, or we'll never get away.
1 欺骗
double-tongued funny prestigious cheating delusive gyp tricksy trickish flamdoodle suck-in have do sell kid pass trick false fraud cheat rig lurk bluff juggle delusion hoax deceit trickery wile swindle charlatan gaff stealing subterfuge circumvention indirection gammon hocus imposture hokum skullduggery skulduggery hocus-pocus trickiness flimflam roguery cozen flivver shenanigan jiggery-pokery jugglery humbuggery dupery swizz swiz inveracity thimblerig yentz string impose fox deceive gag two-time spoof duff illude double-clock horn-swoggle take job short green beat lie burn abuse smoke hook bite spin trim palm fool rim stall gum bitch hustle hum fiddle jockey cog dope skunk doodle dupe fob gull defraud victimize lurch delude jive bamboozle flam euchre double-cross razzle-dazzle cully gold-brick befool take-in leg-pull skin game double cross monkey business cross-up hoky-poky plant curve twist shaft illusion bob deception sham trimming gouge bop mace shuck barney bunco eyewash falseness legerdemain hanky-panky rinky-dink chicane cooch chiz hokey-pokey gloze rort hokeypokey cootch shit boodle practice ring bull grease fudge bam dipsy-doodle banter diddle cold-deck gazoozle fainaigue make work catch stick cross jump cream dish screw hose bucket hype mock Jew sucker buffalo mislead bunk deacon nick chisel ream snooker mystify short-change slicker beguile frig fop jink gudgeon trepan hornswoggle gyppo double-X make game of bludge on play the rogue slip one over on put it over on have a game with play the fool with a clean shave run a sandy on on the earhole givethe business string on throw a curve on the fiddle give short change come it play games with falsidical deceptive beguiling fallacious duplicitous colorable deceptively fraudulently deceivingly beguilingly imposturing quackishness imposition sleight duplicity humbug mystification fraudulence knavery beguilement cozenage bamboozlement hocuspocus double-deal scam sting cod Nick hoodwink bilk shortchange do a snow job put over on practise on practise upon act a lie play a part shell game put upon make a fool of
2 欺诈
double-tongued schlenter fast false fraudulent oblique two-faced cronk dodgery gullery have sell plant lie shift burn trick twist cheat rig ramp hype deception fiddle graft juggle racket imposition gull deceit trickery wile swindle rip-off contrivance humbug indirection barney hocus imposture flam skulduggery razzle-dazzle fraudulence flimflam roguery crookery cooch jugglery dupery carve-up cootch cross cog sharp deceive defraud finagle gazump rogue sting hustle fleece jockey gouge ream goldbrick on the crook
3 诈欺
imposturous con juggling take-in have do fraud cheat ramp scam hype fiddle juggle imposition pretense trickery swindle indirection eyewash imposture fraudulence flimflam roguery crookery jugglery dupery cozenage fakement double-deal jockey humbug finagle pluck dupe ream gold-brick skin game shell game
4 骗
sharp shark frog sting chisel bamboozle gyp wheedle gip palter outjockey work best dish trick bubble bucket rogue mock pigeon nick fudge rook beguile bedevil bilk diddle bunco mump
5 骗子
take-in shicer shit-heel shit-hook clip-artist gypper skin leg operator clip sharp Greek fraud fake con cheat stiff booster hawk idol coyote kite hustle counterfeit crook burglar sham phony cheater twister rook shaver fiddler quack mace jackal trickster charlatan impostor juggler faker dingo slicker biter humbug skinner bilk spritzer sharper grifter come-on duffer racketeer gyp blackleg spieler lurcher bunyip duper pettifogger highbinder shammer twicer saltimbanco quacksalver magsman faitour
7 诈欺师