hoodwink
An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from viewAn act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
» Tom hoodwinked Mary.
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
2 senses(countable)An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
(UK, obsolete, uncountable)The game of blind man's buff.
Examples
7 sentencesTom hoodwinked Mary.
Ziri should not allow himself to be hoodwinked by such promises.
Mary used her feminine wiles to hoodwink Tom into revealing state secrets.
How could I hoodwink him?
As far as we are concerned we see this as a political gimmick made to hoodwink people.
Translations
1 languagesOrigin
The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jackeThe 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').
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Forms
plural: hoodwinksSynonyms
1 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.