A.Word.A.Day		About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us

Home Today's Word Yesterday's Word Archives FAQ

This week's theme Illustrated words This week's words smalto agnosia chouse cobber rimy Give a gift that ... keeps on giving, all year long A gift subscription of AWAD It takes less than a minute. Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg chouse PRONUNCIATION: (chous) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To cheat or trick. 2. To drive or herd in a rough manner. ETYMOLOGY: For 1: Perhaps from chiaus (the word for an official in the Ottoman Empire), one such official defrauded people. 2: Origin unknown. Cartoonist: Doug Pike pawky: cunning loo: a card game in which forfeits are put into a pool USAGE: "Rightly viewed, calf-butchering accounts for Titus Andronicus, the only play -- ain't it? -- that the Stratford Shakespeare ever wrote; and yet it is the only one everybody tries to chouse him out of." Mark Twain; Is Shakespeare Dead? Harper & Brothers; 1909. "And there are lots of squirrels. Like the pair of gray squirrels chasing and chousing each other through the branches and up and down the vine-covered trunk of a tall pin oak tree." Mike Leggett; Memories of Youth Found on Squirrel Hunts; Austin American-Statesman; Oct 17, 2004. Explore "chouse" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: There will be no Homeland Security until we realize that the entire planet is our homeland. Every sentient being in the world must feel secure. -John Perkins, economist and author (b.1945)

A.Word.A.Day by email: Subscribe "The most welcomed, most enduring piece of daily mass e-mail in cyberspace." Sponsored by: Give the Gift of Words Share the magic of words. Send a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. Anu on Words: Writer Magazine SF Gate SF Gate Globe & Mail Interact: Bulletin board Wordsmith Talk Moderated Chat Wordsmith Chat Readers' Voice AWADmail