ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hoodwink

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/ · Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Hoodwink is a verb meaning (transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.

Meaning

(transitive, archaic) 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.
(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.
(countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
(British, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.

[T]o have to do with you, is to have to do with a man of business who is not to be hoodwinked.

Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.

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?

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?

Depending on context, synonyms include snow, hoodman-blind, beguile, bamboozle, juggle.

Related dictionary entries include beguile, bamboozle, snow, juggle, fool, mislead.

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