hoodwink Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb influence by slyness
    juggle; beguile.
  2. verb conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
    lead by the nose; play false; snow; pull the wool over someone's eyes; bamboozle.
    • He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well

WordNet

Hood"wink transitive verb
Etymology
Hood + wink.
Definitions
  1. To blind by covering the eyes.
    We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak.
  2. To cover; to hide. Obs. Shak.
  3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. "Hoodwinked with kindness." Sir P. Sidney.

Webster 1913