Meanings
plural chusers
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of chooser.
Beggars and Borrowers muſt be no Chuſers.
1732, Thomas Fuller (collector), Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British, London: […] B. Barker […]; and A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, […], page 352 more examples
And he wiſely overlooketh the Queſtion, who choſe thoſe Preſbyters that were the chuſers of the Biſhop?
1681, Richard Baxter, A Second True Defence of the Meer Nonconformists, Against the Untrue Accusations, Reasonings and History of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Dean of St. Pauls, &c. […], London: […] Nevil Simons, […], page 139She became a subscriber—amazed at being anything in propria persona, amazed at her own doings in every way; to be a renter, a chuser of books!
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IX, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 191
Origin
- Middle Englishcheser
- Englishchuser
From Middle English cheser; equivalent to chuse + -er.
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chuser. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/chuser
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