hoodwink
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hoodwink
- /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/ UK
- /ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/ US
Where it comes from
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.
verb hoodwinks · hoodwinking · hoodwinked · hoodwink
- To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. 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.
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To deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead.
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.
Similar: snow
- To hide or obscure. 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.
- To close the eyes. [W]herfore haue you ſate ſtill, and comply'd and hood-winkt, till the generall complaints of the Land have ſqeez'd you to a wretched, cold and hollow-hearted confeſſion of ſome Prelaticall riots both in this and other places of your Booke.
noun hoodwinks
- An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view. What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
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The game of blind man's buff.
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
Similar: hoodman-blind
Translations
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verb to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead
| Español | dársela con queso, engañar |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 欺騙 /欺骗 qīpiàn |
| Português | blefar, enganar, iludir, ludibriar |
| Français | avoir |
| Deutsch | übers Ohr hauen, an der Nase herumführen, hinters Licht führen, täuschen |
| Italiano | imbrogliare, ingannare |
| Русский | обманывать obmanyvatʹ |
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