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chiaus
/t͡ʃaʊs/
noun 4verb 1
Collocations
3VERB + CHIAUS
am
CHIAUS + NOUN
s, sir
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
An Ottoman Empire court official; an attendant, messenger, herald, interpreter.
2
An Ottoman Empire çavuş (“sergeant”).
3
Obsolete spelling of chouse (“a swindler”).
Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus? Face. What’s that? Dap. The Turk was, here― As one would say, do you think I am a Turk? Face. I’ll tell the doctor so. Dap. Do, good sweet captain.
verb
1
Obsolete spelling of chouse (“cheat, trick, swindle”).
The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused (or choused) the Turkish and Persian merchants out of ₤4,000, before the arrival of his employer, and had decamped. The affair was quite recent in 1610, when Jonson's "Alchemist" appeared, in which it is thus alluded to:[…]
noun
1
Alternative letter-case form of chiaus.
The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants
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Dap. And will I tell then! By this hand of flesh, Would it might never write good courthand more, If discover. What do you think of me, That I am a chiaus? Face. What’s that? Dap. The Turk was, here
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The word chouse appears to have been introduced into the language at the beginning of the seventeenth century. In 1609, a Chiaus sent by Sir Robert Shirley, from Constantinople to London, had chiaused
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The greater part of the Chiaus's do the Duty of Serjeants
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