hoodwink
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: games
Etymology: 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.
Compound parts: hood
wink
Inflected forms:
form: hoodwinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoodwinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: hoodwinkest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: hoodwinkedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: hoodwinks
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hoodwinketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: hoodwink
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: hoodwinking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hoodwinked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hoodwinks
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: 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.
It is the cuſtome of theſe maydes when they walke in the ſtreetes, to couer their faces with their vailes verecundiæ cauſâ [because of modesty], the ſtuffe being ſo thin and ſlight, that they may eaſily looke through it. For it is made of a pretty ſlender ſilke, and very finely curled: ſo that becauſe ſhe thus hoodwinketh her ſelfe, you can very ſeldome ſee her face at full when ſhe walketh abroad, though perhaps you earneſtly deſire it, but only a little glimpſe thereof.
gloss: To deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
[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?
[L]ocal prophecy declares on Merlin's authority that when the tree falls Carmarthen will fall with it. Perhaps through an unconscious desire on the part of some patriotic citizens of averting the calamity by inducing the tree-spirit to transfer its abode, or else by otherwise hoodwinking the tree-spirit into forgetting that Merlin's Oak is dead, a vigorous and now flourishing young oak has been planted so directly beside it that its foliage embraces it.
Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.
Can't the New York myth be exploded before Mr. De Sapio [i.e, Carmine DeSapio] hoodwinks Mr. [William Averell] Harriman and the Democratic Party?
Is it funny in the novel [The Horse’s Mouth (1944) by Joyce Cary] to hear Gulley tell about hoodwinking his former or prospective rich patrons with absurd pranks?
As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.
In the absence of enforcement, many liurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearby liurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.
gloss: To hide or obscure.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
figuratively
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To close the eyes.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
rare
examples: [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.
gloss: An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
Here were old buildings, and mazy webs of wandering; soft cliff was handy, dark wood and rushing waters, tangled lanes, fuzzy corners, nooks of overhanging, depths of in-and-out hood-winks of nature, when she does not wish man to know everything about her.
gloss: The game of blind man's buff.
pos: noun
tags: UK
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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 skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.
Derived words: hoodwinkable
hoodwinked
hoodwinker
hoodwinkery
hoodwinking
unhoodwink
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