Associations to the word «Hoodwink»

Wiktionary

HOODWINK, verb. (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
HOODWINK, verb. To deceive or trick.

Dictionary definition

HOODWINK, verb. Influence by slyness.
HOODWINK, verb. Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well".

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche