hoodwink

Plural: hoodwinks

Verb

Verb Forms: hoodwinked, hoodwinking, hoodwinks

• To deceive or trick someone.
• influence by slyness
• conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
• To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.
• To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
• To hide or obscure.
• To close the eyes.

Noun

• An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
• The game of blind man's buff.

Examples

• He tried to hoodwink his opponent into thinking he had no vowels, but failed.

Synonyms

bamboozle, beguile, juggle, lead by the nose, play false, pull the wool over someone's eyes, snow, hoodman-blind

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