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   hoodwinker

   /ˈhʊdwɪŋkə/

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   • 1. a person who deceives or tricks someone: "the former CEO will be remembered as one of the great corporate hoodwinkers"

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   What does hoodwinker mean?

   • 1. to deceive or trick. 2. Archaic. to blindfold. 3. Obs. to cover or hide. hood′wink`er, n. Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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   What does hoodwink mean?

   • Did you know? We usually use the word wink to refer to a brief shutting of one eye, but hoodwink draws on an older and more obscure meaning of wink covered in our Unabridged Dictionary: “to close one’s eyes.”

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   When was hoodwinker first used?

   • The earliest known use of the noun hoodwinker is in the 1880s. OED's only evidence for hoodwinker is from 1884, in Harper's Magazine. hoodwinker is formed within English, by derivation. hoodwort, n. hoof, n.

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   Is the public Hoodwinked?

   • “The public ... is as easily hood-winked,” wrote the Irish physician Charles Lucas in 1756, by which time the figurative use had been around for decades—and today, that meaning of the word is far from winking out. Don't let yourself be hoodwinked into buying things you don't need.

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   Hoodwink is a verb that means to deceive by false appearance or to blindfold. A hoodwinker is someone who does this or someone who is deceived in this way.

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   to deceive or trick someone: hoodwink someone into doing something He hoodwinked us into agreeing. Synonym. bamboozle informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Cheating & tricking. anti-fraud. bad faith. bamboozle. bilk. blackmail. deceive. diddle. feint. flannel. funny business. game-fixing. grifter. gull. gyp. prankster. pretextual.

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   Hoodwinker is a verb that means to deceive or trick someone by deception. It comes from the word hoodwink, which means to cover or hide the eyes with a hood. See examples, translations and related terms.

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   To hoodwink someone means to trick or mislead them. Beware of fake ATMs that try to hoodwink you into giving over your bank card and your code, only to keep them both and steal all your money.

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   Hoodwink means to trick or deceive someone, and hoodwinker is someone who does this. Learn the origin, synonyms, examples and usage of these words from Collins Dictionary.

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   Hoodwink definition: to deceive or trick.. See examples of HOODWINK used in a sentence.

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   hoodwinker is a noun derived from hoodwink, meaning to deceive or trick someone. The earliest known use of hoodwinker is in 1884, in Harper's Magazine.