hoodwink
verb /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hoodwink | /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/ /ˈhʊdwɪŋk/ |
| he / she / it hoodwinks | /ˈhʊdwɪŋks/ /ˈhʊdwɪŋks/ |
| past simple hoodwinked | /ˈhʊdwɪŋkt/ /ˈhʊdwɪŋkt/ |
| past participle hoodwinked | /ˈhʊdwɪŋkt/ /ˈhʊdwɪŋkt/ |
| -ing form hoodwinking | /ˈhʊdwɪŋkɪŋ/ /ˈhʊdwɪŋkɪŋ/ |
- hoodwink somebody (into doing something) to trick somebody
- She had been hoodwinked into buying a worthless necklace.
- I feel as if I’ve been hoodwinked.
- Staff felt as if they had been hoodwinked when they discovered the new management’s plans.
Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally in the sense ‘to blindfold’): from the noun hood ‘covering’ + an obsolete sense of wink ‘close the eyes’.