Definition 2025
chowsing
chowsing
English
Verb
chowsing
- (obsolete) present participle of chowse
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1792, John Croft, editor, Scrapeana: fugitive miscellany, Sans Souci [London]: [s.n.], OCLC 504501947, page 14:- […] in his discourse on the heinous sins of chowsing, cheating, and defrauding one's neighbours, […]
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