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hoodwinkery

noun

Etymology

From hoodwink (“to deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead”) + -ery.

  1. derived from *weng-✻
  2. inherited from *winkōn✻
  3. inherited from wincian
  4. inherited from wynken
  5. compounded as hoodwink — “hood + wink”
  6. suffixed as hoodwinkery — “hoodwink + -ery”

Definitions

  1. The process or act of hoodwinking

    The process or act of hoodwinking; deception, trickery.

    • This actress is a brilliant comedienne, a mistress of the art of insinuation, extremely skilled in the hoodwinkery of gestures of which Duse was the greatest exponent.
    • For there is no greater loss than the loss of a child—to the world's hoodwinkery. To the arms of the galaxies. To being shadowed by the hood of Nothingness.

  2. An instance of hoodwinking

    An instance of hoodwinking; a deception or trick.

    • When a conjurer truly enjoys his work, when he radiates that uncounterfeitable pleasure he derives from doing his mysterious hoodwinkeries, no audience in the world can resist him.
    • I actually guffawed when I heard that the guy from The Apprentice was running for president. I thought the 2016 election was one of the most hilarious hoodwinkeries of all time.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA