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hoodwink

[ hood-wingk ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used with object)

hoodwink

/ ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk /

First recorded in 1555–65; hood ¹ + wink ¹

C16: originally, to cover the eyes with a hood, blindfold

Or when he said the Clinton camp was trying to “bamboozle” or “hoodwink” voters?

From blueberry-free blueberry muffins to nutty cereals with no nuts, how foodmakers hoodwink their customers.

Madame de la Baudraye would have to hoodwink her mother, her husband, her maid, and her mother's maid; that is too much to do.

His whole policy in fact was but a miserable attempt to hoodwink the Spanish people.

Nothing, of course, and so the all-important point was to hoodwink the British commander.

The assertion that slavery did not exist in the Transvaal is only made to hoodwink the English public.

It was as though he had detected them in a sort of childs play by which they had hoped to hoodwink him.

April 25, 2024firkin

[fur-kin ]

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