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Definition of Hoodwinks
1. hoodwink [v] - See also: hoodwink
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoodwinks
Literary usage of Hoodwinks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases, and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellender Ker (1840)
"We can say, he winks at his own disgrace, not, that he hoodwinks at his own ...
Prejudice so dexterously hoodwinks men's minds as " to keep them in the dark ..."
2. Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases: Terms and Nursery Rhymes by John Bellenden Ker (1840)
"We can say, he winks at his own disgrace, not, that he hoodwinks at his own ...
Prejudice so dexterously hoodwinks men's minds as " to keep them in the dark ..."
3. The Complete Works of Thomas Brooks. Ed. by Thomas Brooks, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1866)
"... he hoodwinks her, and fetters her, because he loves her, and takes delight in
her ; so the Lord by afflictions hoodwinks and fetters his children, ..."
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