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hoodwink
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[ˈhʊdwɪŋk], (Verb)
Definitions:
- deceive or trick
(e.g: staff were hoodwinked into thinking the cucumber was a sawn-off shotgun)
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Origin
:
mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘to blindfold’): from the noun hood + an obsolete sense of wink ‘close the eyes’
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