English Dictionary

hoodwink

/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/

verb

(transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. / To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead. / (archaic) To hide or obscure.

He tried to hoodwink his friends into believing his lies.

意味（1）

(transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold.

Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans 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 vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.

意味（2）

To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.

For, (having many times torne the vaile of modestie) it seemed, for a laste delight, that she delighted in infamy: which often she had used to her husbands shame, filling all mens eares (but his) with reproch; while he (hoodwinkt with kindnes) lest of all mẽ [men] knew who strake him.

意味（3）

(archaic) To hide or obscure.

Good my Lord, giue me thy fauour ſtil, / Be patient, for the prize Ile bring thee too / Shall hudwinke this miſchance: therefore ſpeake ſoftly, / All's huſht as midnight yet.

意味（4）

(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.

[W]herefore have you ſate ſtill, and comply'd and hood-winkt, till the generall Complaints of the Land have ſqueez'd you to a wretched, cold and hollow-hearted Confeſſion of ſome prelaticall Riots both in this and other places of your Booke?