hoodwink
English
Etymology
From hood + wink. First attested in the 1560s, in the sense "to blindfold".
Pronunciation
Verb
hoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked) (transitive)
- (figurative) To deceive by disguise; to dupe, bewile, mislead.
- 1725, Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse, Volume 1:
- […] ſhe delighted in infamy : which often ſhe had uſed to her husband's ſhame, filling all mens ears, but his, with reproach ; while he, hoodwinked with kindneſs, leaſt of all men knew who ſtrake him.
- 1725, Philip Sidney, The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse, Volume 1:
- (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
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- 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.
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- (archaic) To overshadow something in a way that one is blind or oblivious to it.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 15:
- (archaic) To hide or obscure.
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- The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked […]
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Translations
to deceive
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