Present participle of chouse; the act of cheating or swindling someone.
From chouse (to cheat), derived from Turkish çauş. The -ing ending creates the present participle form, indicating an ongoing action of deception.
Chousing captures the moment of trickery in progress—it's the present tense of deception, and this word was especially popular among 17th-century writers describing financial schemes and marketplace fraud.
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