hoodwink

Etymology

hood +‎ wink

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/

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Verb

hoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked)

1. To deceive or trick.

   I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.

2. (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
     , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:

     Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans 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 upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.