hood-wink
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[edit]hood-wink (third-person singular simple present hood-winks, present participle hood-winking, simple past and past participle hood-winked)
- Alternative form of hoodwink
- 1877, R. Elton Smile [Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter I, in The Manatitlans; or a Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derecho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 12-13:
- A clear understanding of the language is absolutely necessary, for the inhabitants of the river towns are very apt to "fly" from a bad bargain when they find themselves caught and lightly held, so that the only safe way to secure them is to clip their wings and hood-wink them in black and white.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hood-wink.