Past tense of chowse; cheated or swindled.
Past tense form of chowse, a variant of chouse. Regular English past tense formation with -ed suffix on this 17th-century slang verb.
This spelling variant shows how fluid and creative Early Modern English spelling was—chowse and chouse appear interchangeably in 1600s texts, and nobody seemed to worry about standardization.
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