hoodwink

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Verb

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[edit] Etymology

hood +‎ wink

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
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[edit] Verb

to hoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked)

1. (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 81:

     Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.

2. To deceive or trick.

   I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.

3. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) to make up for