hoodwinked

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Definition of hoodwinked in English English dictionary: past of hoodwink
hoodwink: 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 might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.
hoodwink: to deceive
hoodwink: {v} to blind, hide, cover, deceive
hoodwink: If someone hoodwinks you, they trick or deceive you. People expect others to be honest, which is why conmen find it so easy to hoodwink people = con. to trick someone in a clever way so that you can get an advantage for yourself (hoodwink (16-19 centuries), from hood + wink)
hoodwink: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
hoodwink: To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon
hoodwink: influence by slyness
hoodwink: To cover; to hide
hoodwink: {f} cheat, deceive
hoodwink: To blind by covering the eyes
hoodwink: to make up for
hoodwink: To deceive or trick
hoodwink: To blindfold