Posted on 03/22/2006 5:56:44 AM PST by VRWCmember
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
chouse • \CHOWSS ("OW" as in "cow")\ • verb
cheat, trick
Example sentence:
In Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Mr. Cruncher says, "If I ain't, what with piety and one blowed thing and another, been choused this last week into as bad luck as ever a poor devil of a honest tradesman met with!"
Did you know?
"You shall chouse him of Horses, Cloaths, and Mony," wrote John Dryden in his 1662 play Wild Gallant. Dryden was one of the first English writers to use "chouse," but he wasn't the last. That term, which may derive from a Turkish word meaning "doorkeeper" or "messenger," has a rich literary past, appearing in works by Samuel Pepys, Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, among others, but its use dropped off in the 20th century. In fact, English speakers of today may be more familiar with another "chouse," a verb used in the American West to mean "to drive or herd roughly." In spite of their identical spellings, though, the two "chouse" homographs are not related (and the origin of the latter is a source of some speculation).
Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.
The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
Review Thread Four: Word For the Day, Friday 7/25/03: Potation
Review Thread Five: Word For the Day, Monday 8/19/03: Stolid
Review Thread Six: Word for the Day, Tuesday 11/09/2004: Peripatetic (Post #125 may be my best anagram post ever)
Here is my example with WFTD.
The producers of another "reality show" hope to chouse the public into accepting its agenda regarding racism.
Truth in "Black. White."
No pushing at the door please!
Happy Humpday Everybody!
tenth?
Choute? Wasn't that Hillary's nickname in college?
Third, I think.
Sorry, I misspelled "Chouse".... see the tagline.
Look at you first in class, sitting on the front row with the low-cut tank top to impress the teacher.
I think you played a chowss on me by posting to me on yesterday's thread while you were posting the new one. So there! LOL!
sorry i was dawdling elsewhere...
I'm in!! Good morning, all.
Hi - Bye!!!!!!!!!!
I've waited a long time for you to realize I was #1..... ;^)
Is that what you call them?
Did you hear the story about the family who took a trip to Oregon and were snowed in for three weeks in their motorhome? They used dried food and MREs to make it through. There were six of them. Two of them finally went on foot to get help. They all survived with no problem, thank goodness. But I have a problem with the story:
Why no CB or cell phone. Granted a cell phone might not be able to work. I think I would have used flares on top of the motorhome in a bucket of water, of course. Everyone is praising them for their survival skills, but I, myself, think they are idiots.
Remember when we used to send FReepmails to each other as a distraction just as we thought Miss Rika was about to open a new classroom. The competition to be the first one to post in the new classroom was quite funny.
Good morning, bentfeather! We were discussing weather on yesterday's thread this morning. How's yours?
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