choush

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: choush, IPA^(key): /t͡ʃaʊʃ/
• Rhymes: -aʊʃ
• Hyphenation: choush

Noun

choush (plural choushes)

1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of chiaus. [from 19th c.]
   • 1874, Samuel W. Baker, Ismailïa: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade: organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, volume 2, London: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 299:

     The other bodies were those of the choush that had fallen by my side, and the soldier who had been shot on the parapet.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:choush.

References

• "Chiaus" in A New English dictionary on historical principles, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893, volume 2, p. 334.
• “chiaus, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

• shochu, shōchū