hoodwink : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: hoodwink	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for hoodwink
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoodwink v influence by slyness Synonym(s): juggle, beguile, 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" Synonym(s): bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Hoodwink \Hood"wink\, v. t. [Hood + wink.] 1. To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. --Shak. 2. To cover; to hide. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. [bd]Hoodwinked with kindness.[b8] --Sir P. Sidney.