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Hoodwink

//ˈhʊdwɪŋk// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view. countable

    "What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion."

  2. 2
    The game of blind man's buff. British, obsolete, uncountable

    "Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke."

Verb
  1. 1
    To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. archaic, transitive

    "Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans 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 vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination."

  2. 2
    conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end wordnet
  3. 3
    To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead. figuratively, transitive
  4. 4
    influence by slyness wordnet
  5. 5
    To hide or obscure. archaic, figuratively, transitive

    "Good my Lord, giue me thy fauour ſtil, / Be patient, for the prize Ile bring thee too / Shall hudwinke this miſchance: therefore ſpeake ſoftly, / All's huſht as midnight yet."

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  1. 6
    To close the eyes. figuratively, intransitive, obsolete, rare, transitive

    "For, (having many times torne the vaile of modestie) it seemed, for a laste delight, that she delighted in infamy: which often she had used to her husbands shame, filling all mens eares (but his) with reproch; while he (hoodwinkt with kindnes) lest of all mẽ [men] knew who strake him."

Etymology

Etymology 1

The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”). (< C16 'to blindfold'). The noun is derived from the verb.

Etymology 2

The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”). (< C16 'to blindfold'). The noun is derived from the verb.

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