hoodwink

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood

   To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.

2. 2

   To deceive using a disguise

   To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.

   • [T]o have to do with you, is to have to do with a man of business who is not to be hoodwinked.
   • The earth is given over into the hand of the Wicked One, / Who hoodwinketh the faces of its judges. / If this be not so, where, who is HE?
3. 3

   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.
   • The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked—when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.
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   1. 4

      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.
   2. 5

      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.
   3. 6

      The game of blind man's buff.

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