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hoodwink

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English

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WOTD – 15 June 2021

Etymology

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Theverb is derived fromhood(“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) +‎wink(“to close one’s eyes”).[1] (<C16 'to blindfold').

Thenoun is derived from the verb.[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hoodwink (third-person singular simple presenthoodwinks,present participlehoodwinking,simple past and past participlehoodwinked)

  1. (transitive, archaic) Tocover theeyes with, or as if with, ahood; toblindfold.[from mid 16th c.]
    • 1603,Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Force of Imagination”, inJohn Florio, transl.,The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes forEdward Blount […],→OCLC,page40:
      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 washood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found ſtarke dead vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.
    • 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e.,Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, inCoryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author],→OCLC,page261, lines9–16:
      It is the cuſtome of theſe maydes when they walke in the ſtreetes, to couer their faces with their vailesverecundiæ 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 thushoodwinketh 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.
  2. (transitive, figuratively)
    1. Todeceiveusing adisguise; tobewile,dupe,mislead.
    Synonym:snow
      • c.1580 (date written), Philippe Sidnei [i.e.,Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville;Matthew Gwinne;John Florio], editors,The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] forWilliam Ponsonbie, published1590,→OCLC:
        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.
      • 1852 March –1853 September,Charles Dickens, “Attorney and Client”, inBleak House, London:Bradbury and Evans, […], published1853,→OCLC,page388:
        [T]o have to do with you, is to have to do with a man of business who is not to behoodwinked.
      • 1871, “Reply of Job to the First Speech of Bildad”, in John Noble Coleman, transl.,The Poem of Job: The Most Ancient Book in the Universe: The First Written Revelation which God Vouchsafed to Man. […], 2nd edition, […] [T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable at theEdinburgh University Press] for private circulation,→OCLC, chapter IX, verse 24,page27:
        The earth is given over into the hand of the Wicked One, / Whohoodwinketh the faces of its judges. / If this be not so, where, who is HE?
      • 1911,W[alter] Y[eeling] Evans-Wentz, “The Testimony of Paganism”, inThe Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries, London; New York, N.Y.: Henry Frowde,Oxford University Press,→OCLC, section III (The Cult of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead),page435:
        [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 otherwisehoodwinking 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.
      • 1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, inThe Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce, volume XIII, number333, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices,→OCLC,page410, column 1:
        Ex-KingConstantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose ofhoodwinking the Allies.
      • 1955 November 7, Russell C. Stroup, “Native Sons[letter]”, inHenry R[obinson] Luce, editor,Time, volume LXVI, number19, New York, N.Y.:Time Inc.,→ISSN,→OCLC,page10, column 2:
        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?
      • 1959 January,Parker Tyler, “Has the Horse’s Mouth a Gold Tooth?”, in Albert Frankfurter, editor,ARTnews, volume57, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Art Foundation Press,→ISSN,→OCLC,page38, column 2:
        Is it funny in the novel [The Horse’s Mouth (1944) byJoyce Cary] to hear Gulley tell abouthoodwinking his former or prospective rich patrons with absurd pranks?
      • 2007,Linda Colley, “Out of the Caribbean”, inThe Ordeal ofElizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become a Part of World History, London:Harper Perennial, published2008,→ISBN, page39:
        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 ofhoodwinking them.
      • 2013, Gordon[Patrick] Peake, “The Portuguese Monument”, inBeloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Brunswick, Vic.; London:Scribe Publications,→ISBN,page21:
        In the absence of enforcement, manyliurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearbyliurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, theliurai who were sent out to get the moneyhoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.
    2. (archaic) Tohide orobscure.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) Toclose the eyes.

Conjugation

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Conjugation ofhoodwink
infinitive(to)hoodwink
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularhoodwinkhoodwinked
2nd-personsingularhoodwink,hoodwinkest†hoodwinked,hoodwinkedst†
3rd-personsingularhoodwinks,hoodwinketh†hoodwinked
pluralhoodwink
subjunctivehoodwinkhoodwinked
imperativehoodwink—
participleshoodwinkinghoodwinked

Derived terms

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Translations

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to cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood—seeblindfold
to deceive using a disguise—see alsomislead
to hide or obscure—seehide,‎obscure

Noun

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hoodwink (countable anduncountable,pluralhoodwinks)

  1. (countable) Anact ofhiding fromsight, or something thatcloaks or hides anotherthing fromview.
  2. (British, games, obsolete, uncountable) Thegame ofblind man's buff.
    Synonym:(obsolete)hoodman-blind

Translations

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act of hiding from sight

References

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  1. ^“hoodwink,v.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, March 2021;“hoodwink,v.”, inLexico,Dictionary.com;Oxford University Press,2019–2022.
  2. ^“hoodwink,n.”, inOED OnlinePaid subscription required⁠, Oxford:Oxford University Press, March 2021.

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