hoodwink

hoodwink
    v 1: influence by slyness [syn: {juggle}, {beguile}, {hoodwink}]
    2: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately
       feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled
       his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
       [syn: {bamboozle}, {snow}, {hoodwink}, {pull the wool over
       someone's eyes}, {lead by the nose}, {play false}]
    

Hoodwink \Hood"wink\ (h[oo^]d"w[i^][ng]k), v. t. [Hood + wink.]
   1. To blind by covering the eyes.
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            We will blind and hoodwink him.       --Shak.
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   2. To cover; to hide. [Obs.] --Shak.
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   3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon.
      "Hoodwinked with kindness." --Sir P. Sidney.
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38 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoodwink":
      bamboozle, bandage, bedazzle, befool, benight, blind,
      blind the eyes, blindfold, chicane, con, darken, daze, dazzle,
      deceive, defraud, delude, deprive of sight, dim, dupe, eclipse,
      excecate, flimflam, fool, glare, gouge, gull, hoax, humbug,
      make blind, mislead, obscure, outwit, rook, snow, snow-blind,
      strike blind, suck in, trick