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▪ I. hoodwink, v.|ˈhʊdwɪŋk|
[f. hood n.1 + wink v.]
1. trans. To cover the eyes with a hood or other covering so as to prevent vision; to blindfold.
1562Apol. Priv. Masse (1850) 10 Will you enforce women to hoodwink themselves in the church? 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 62 Hawthorne's face was hoodwinked with a cloake or coate. 1690W. Edmundson Jrnl. (1715) 127 Then they hood-winkt my Sons to hang them. a1691J. Flavel Sea-Deliv. (1754) 157 The fog hoodwinked our eyes. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 342 Several gentlemen..were taken up and carried to the Tower, hoodwinked and muffled that they might not be known. 1801Strutt Sports & Past. i. ii. 28 When the hawk was not flying at her game she was usually hood-winked with a cap or hood provided for that purpose. 1836W. Irving Astoria II. 302 One of the savages attempted to hoodwink him with his buffalo robe with one hand, and to stab him with the other.
2. fig. To cover up from sight.
a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vi. vi. §10 Had it pleased him not to hoodwink his own knowledge, I nothing doubt but he fully saw how to answer himself. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 206 For the prize Ile bring thee too Shall hudwinke this mischance. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 187 The Necessary..Ingredients, are so hood-winkt by the Adjuncts, that they are unable to peep out of the mixture.
3. fig. To blindfold mentally; to prevent (any one) from seeing the truth or fact; to ‘throw dust in the eyes’ of, deceive, humbug.
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 848 Let not the faithlesse therefore hood-winck them-selves in the knowledge of nature. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xii. §5 (1622) 134 Some men..may so hoodwinke their conscience. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 246 The public..is easily hood⁓winked. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. II. viii. 115 A man of business who is not to be hoodwinked. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) II. vi. 180 A professor..trying to hoodwink me by a bit of technical platitude.
†4. intr. To shut one's eyes, to wink. Obs. rare.
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. (1851) 198 Wherfore have you sat still, and comply'd and hoodwinkt, till the generall complaints of the Land have squeez'd you to a..hollow-hearted confession.
Hence ˈhoodwinking vbl. n. Also ˈhoodˌwinkable a., capable of being hoodwinked; ˈhoodwinker, one who hoodwinks.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. vii. 17 There was nothing so rife as the hangman, sequestring of pillage, hood⁓wincking [obductio capitum]. 1858Greener Gunnery 383 The ‘hoodwinking’ of the public by not disclosing the fact. 1884Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/1 Hypocrisy..the hoodwinker of communities. 1889Poet Lore Aug. 387 The hoodwinkable stupidity of the public.
▪ II. ˈhoodwink, n.
[f. prec. vb.]
†1. The act of hoodwinking; the game of hoodman-blind or blind-man's-buff. Obs.
1573–80Baret Alv. H 597 The Hoodwinke play, or hoodmanblinde, in some places called the blindmanbuf. 1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxx. 134 By Moone-shine..giue each other chase, At Hood-winke, Barley-breake [etc.].
2. A concealment from view; a blind.
1583Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 100 Too mask her Phansye with hudwinck. 1586J. Hooker Girald. Irel. in Holinshed II. 86/1 Where are the tokens of my wilfull hud⁓winke? 1732Gay Distr. Wife 1, Flattery, fondness and tears..hood-winks that wives have ready. 1894Blackmore Perlycross 417 Hood-winks of nature, when she does not wish man to know everything about her.
†3. One who hoodwinks; a deceiver. Obs.
1638in Maidment Bk. Scot. Pasquils (1868) 66 These hoodwinks now ar stolne Lyke thieves to court.
▪ III. † ˈhoodwink, a. Obs.
[? for hoodwinkt.]
= hoodwinked; blindfold.
1580Sidney Ps. x. vi, God sleepes..His farr-of sight now hud winck is. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. x, Some uncouth might them hoodwink hither drave. 1652Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 106 What hoodwink and untimely wisdome is it? |