hoodwink

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈhʊdwɪŋk/    /ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view. countable
    — What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.
  2. The game of blind man's buff. UK,obsolete,uncountable
    — Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.
动词 v.
  1. To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. archaic,transitive
    — Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hang-mans hand; as he did, whoſe friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt, that he might heare it read, was found ſtarke dead vpon the ſcaffold, wounded onely by the ſtroke of imagination.
  2. To deceive using a disguise; to beguile, dupe, mislead. figuratively,transitive
    — For, (having many times torne the vaile of modestie) it seemed, for a laste delight, that she delighted in infamy: which often she had used to her husbands shame, filling all mens eares (but his) with reproch; while he (hoodwinkt with kindnes) lest of all mẽ [men] knew who strake him.
    The New Arcadia
  3. To hide or obscure. archaic,figuratively,transitive
    — Good my Lord, giue me thy fauour ſtil, / Be patient, for the prize Ile bring thee too / Shall hudwinke this miſchance: therefore ſpeake ſoftly, / All's huſht as midnight yet.
  4. To close the eyes. intransitive,obsolete,rare
    — [W]herfore haue you ſate ſtill, and comply'd and hood-winkt, till the generall complaints of the Land have ſqeez'd you to a wretched, cold and hollow-hearted confeſſion of ſome Prelaticall riots both in this and other places of your Booke.

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”). (< C16 'to blindfold').
The noun is derived from the verb.
词源 2
The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”). (< C16 'to blindfold').
The noun is derived from the verb.
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