hoodwink
pronunciation
How to pronounce hoodwink in British English:
UK [ˈhʊdwɪŋk]
How to pronounce hoodwink in American English:
US [ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk]
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- Verb:
- influence by slyness
- conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
Word Origin
- hoodwink (v.)
- 1560s, "to blindfold," from hood (n.1) + wink; figurative sense of "mislead, deceive" is c. 1600. Related: Hoodwinked; hoodwinking.
Example
- 1. It is difficult to hoodwink a smart lawyer .
- 2. They say the country out to hoodwink the world into accepting a nuclear program that one day surprise !
- 3. Our intense emotion makes us an again heavy is hoodwink .
- 4. Ladle in a few ultra-left phrases to hoodwink the audience .
- 5. And then there is the upbeat tone , a cowardly attempt to hoodwink staff into thinking something good will surely follow .