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hoodwinks

hoodwinks is the plural of hoodwink.

hoodwinks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hoodwink.

Meaning of hoodwink

Noun

hoodwink (countable and uncountable, plural hoodwinks)

  1. (countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
    • What think you of Flattery, Fondneſs, and Tears? Thoſe are Hood-winks that Wives have ready upon every Occaſion.a. 1733, [John] Gay, The Distress’d Wife. A Comedy, London: […] Thomas Astley […], published 1743, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 8
  2. (UK, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.
    • 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...1622, Michael Drayton, “The Thirtieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and...
    Synonyms:
    hoodman-blind

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Questions about hoodwinks

What is hoodwinks the plural of?
Hoodwinks is the plural of hoodwink.

Words near hoodwinks in the dictionary

  1. hoodwinkery
  2. hoodwinkest
  3. hoodwinketh
  4. hoodwinking
  5. hoodwinkings
  6. hoodwinks
  7. hoodwinkt
  8. hoodwise
  9. hoodwort
  10. hoody
  11. Hooe

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