English Dictionary

hoodwink

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/

名詞

可算名詞 イギリス英語 廃用 不可算名詞

(countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view. / (Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.

日本語の意味

視界から隠す行為、または他の物を覆って見えなくするもの / （イギリスの、古い用法、数えられない意味） 目隠し鬼ごっこという遊び

A faded tapestry served as a hoodwink, concealing the ancient map carved into the wall.

古びたタペストリーが覆いとなり、壁に刻まれた古い地図を隠していた。

意味（1）

(countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.

What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.

意味（2）

(Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.

Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.

hoodwinks （ plural ）