hoodwink
11hoodwink — [[t]h ʊdwɪŋk[/t]] hoodwinks, hoodwinking, hoodwinked VERB If someone hoodwinks you, they trick or deceive you. [V n] People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people... [V n] Many people are hoodwinked by… …
12Hoodwink (comics) — Superherobox| caption= comic color=background:#ff8080 character name=Hoodwink real name= species= publisher=Marvel Comics debut= Captain America #294 (June 1984) creators=J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Neary alliance color=background:#c0c0ff status=… …
13hoodwink — transitive verb Etymology: 1hood + wink Date: 1562 1. archaic blindfold 2. obsolete hide 3. to deceive by false appearance ; dupe • hoodwinker noun …
14hoodwink — hoodwinkable, adj. hoodwinker, n. /hood wingk /, v.t. 1. to deceive or trick. 2. Archaic. to blindfold. 3. Obs. to cover or hide. [1555 65; HOOD1 + WINK] Syn. 1. dupe, cheat, swindle, gyp. * * * …
15hoodwink — verb /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/ a) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold. 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… …
16hoodwink — Synonyms and related words: bamboozle, bandage, bedazzle, befool, benight, blind, blind the eyes, blindfold, chicane, con, darken, daze, dazzle, deceive, defraud, delude, deprive of sight, dim, dupe, eclipse, excecate, flimflam, fool, glare,… …
17hoodwink — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. delude, deceive, fool, hoax; blind. See deception, blindness, concealment. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. blind, cheat, outwit; see deceive . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. dupe, mislead, deceive,… …
18hoodwink — hood|wink [ hud,wıŋk ] verb transitive to make someone believe something that is not true …
19hoodwink — v. cheat, deceive …
20hoodwink — verb deceive or trick. Origin C16 (orig. meaning to blindfold ): from hood1 + an obs. sense of wink close the eyes …
