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"ref": "1871, “Reply of Job to the First Speech of Bildad”, in John Noble Coleman, transl., The Poem of Job: The Most Ancient Book in the Universe: The First Written Revelation which God Vouchsafed to Man. […], 2nd edition, […] [T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable at the Edinburgh University Press] for private circulation, →OCLC, chapter IX, verse 24, page 27",
"text": "The earth is given over into the hand of the Wicked One, / Who hoodwinketh the faces of its judges. / If this be not so, where, who is HE?",
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"ref": "1911, W[alter] Y[eeling] Evans-Wentz, “The Testimony of Paganism”, in The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries, London, New York, N.Y.: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section III (The Cult of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead), page 435",
"text": "[L]ocal prophecy declares on Merlin's authority that when the tree falls Carmarthen will fall with it. Perhaps through an unconscious desire on the part of some patriotic citizens of averting the calamity by inducing the tree-spirit to transfer its abode, or else by otherwise hoodwinking the tree-spirit into forgetting that Merlin's Oak is dead, a vigorous and now flourishing young oak has been planted so directly beside it that its foliage embraces it.",
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"ref": "1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce, volume XIII, number 333, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices, →OCLC, page 410, column 1",
"text": "Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.",
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"ref": "1955 November 7, Russell C. Stroup, “Native Sons [letter]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, volume LXVI, number 19, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 2",
"text": "Can't the New York myth be exploded before Mr. De Sapio [i.e, Carmine DeSapio] hoodwinks Mr. [William Averell] Harriman and the Democratic Party?",
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"ref": "1959 January, Parker Tyler, “Has the Horse’s Mouth a Gold Tooth?”, in Albert Frankfurter, editor, ARTnews, volume 57, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Art Foundation Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2",
"text": "Is it funny in the novel [The Horse’s Mouth (1944) by Joyce Cary] to hear Gulley tell about hoodwinking his former or prospective rich patrons with absurd pranks?",
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"ref": "2007, Linda Colley, “Out of the Caribbean”, in The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become a Part of World History, London: Harper Perennial, published 2008, page 39",
"text": "As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.",
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"ref": "2013, Gordon [Patrick] Peake, “The Portuguese Monument”, in Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Brunswick, Vic., London: Scribe Publications, page 21",
"text": "In the absence of enforcement, many liurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearby liurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.",
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"ref": "1827 March, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. I. Œuvres complétes de Machiavel, traduites par J. V. Perier. Paris, 1825. [book review]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLV, number XC, Edinburgh: […] [T]he heirs of D. Willison, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, […]; and Adam Black, […], →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked—when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.",
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"ref": "1871, “Reply of Job to the First Speech of Bildad”, in John Noble Coleman, transl., The Poem of Job: The Most Ancient Book in the Universe: The First Written Revelation which God Vouchsafed to Man. […], 2nd edition, […] [T[homas] and A[rchibald] Constable at the Edinburgh University Press] for private circulation, →OCLC, chapter IX, verse 24, page 27",
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"ref": "1911, W[alter] Y[eeling] Evans-Wentz, “The Testimony of Paganism”, in The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries, London, New York, N.Y.: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, section III (The Cult of Gods, Spirits, Fairies, and the Dead), page 435",
"text": "[L]ocal prophecy declares on Merlin's authority that when the tree falls Carmarthen will fall with it. Perhaps through an unconscious desire on the part of some patriotic citizens of averting the calamity by inducing the tree-spirit to transfer its abode, or else by otherwise hoodwinking the tree-spirit into forgetting that Merlin's Oak is dead, a vigorous and now flourishing young oak has been planted so directly beside it that its foliage embraces it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1917 September 21, “The Greek White Book”, in The Near East: A Weekly Review of Oriental Politics, Literature, Finance, and Commerce, volume XIII, number 333, London: The Near East Editorial and Publishing Offices, →OCLC, page 410, column 1",
"text": "Ex-King Constantine would be regarded as an apt disciple so long as he succeeded in his purpose of hoodwinking the Allies.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1955 November 7, Russell C. Stroup, “Native Sons [letter]”, in Henry R[obinson] Luce, editor, Time, volume LXVI, number 19, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 2",
"text": "Can't the New York myth be exploded before Mr. De Sapio [i.e, Carmine DeSapio] hoodwinks Mr. [William Averell] Harriman and the Democratic Party?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1959 January, Parker Tyler, “Has the Horse’s Mouth a Gold Tooth?”, in Albert Frankfurter, editor, ARTnews, volume 57, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Art Foundation Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 38, column 2",
"text": "Is it funny in the novel [The Horse’s Mouth (1944) by Joyce Cary] to hear Gulley tell about hoodwinking his former or prospective rich patrons with absurd pranks?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Linda Colley, “Out of the Caribbean”, in The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: How a Remarkable Woman Crossed Seas and Empires to Become a Part of World History, London: Harper Perennial, published 2008, page 39",
"text": "As his correspondence with successive aristocratic First Lords of the Admiralty reveals, he was both unctuously deferential in his dealings with his official and social superiors, and capable sometimes of hoodwinking them.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Gordon [Patrick] Peake, “The Portuguese Monument”, in Beloved Land: Stories, Struggles, and Secrets from Timor-Leste, Brunswick, Vic., London: Scribe Publications, page 21",
"text": "In the absence of enforcement, many liurai decided to sell the coffee beans and to pocket the profits. To claw back the money, the Portuguese hired the warriors of a nearby liurai as tax collectors. This itself proved hardly a fail-safe strategy as, on many occasions, the liurai who were sent out to get the money hoodwinked the Portuguese and also kept the stash.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead."
],
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"using",
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"disguise",
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"bewile",
"bewile"
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"dupe",
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"mislead",
"mislead"
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"(transitive, figuratively)",
"To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead."
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"figuratively",
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{
"ref": "1827 March, [Thomas Babington Macaulay], “Art. I. Œuvres complétes de Machiavel, traduites par J. V. Perier. Paris, 1825. [book review]”, in The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, volume XLV, number XC, Edinburgh: […] [T]he heirs of D. Willison, for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, […]; and Adam Black, […], →OCLC, page 285",
"text": "The time was not yet come when eloquence was to be gagged, and reason to be hoodwinked—when the harp of the poet was to be hung on the willows of Arno, and the right hand of the painter to forget its cunning.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
"glosses": [
"To hide or obscure."
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"hide",
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"obscure",
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],
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"(transitive, figuratively)",
"(archaic) To hide or obscure."
],
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"archaic",
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},
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"English intransitive verbs",
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"glosses": [
"To close the eyes."
],
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"close",
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"(intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes."
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"ipa": "/ˈhʊdˌwɪŋk/",
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"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
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"Hokkien"
],
"word": "欺騙"
},
{
"code": "nan-hbl",
"lang": "Chinese",
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"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"tags": [
"Hokkien"
],
"word": "欺骗"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "欺騙"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "qīpiàn",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "欺骗"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "voor de gek houden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "om de tuin leiden"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "misleiden"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "lumpa"
},
{
"code": "fo",
"lang": "Faroese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "svíkja"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "hämätä"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "avoir"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "übers Ohr hauen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "an der Nase herumführen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "hinters Licht führen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "täuschen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "rászed"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "félrevezet"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "draga á asnaeuyrum"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "blekkja"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "bob a bhualadh ar"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "imbrogliare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "ingannare"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "papahu"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "whakanewhanewha"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "whakarare"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "blefar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "enganar"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "iludir"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "ludibriar"
},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "obmanyvatʹ",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "обманывать"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "dársela con queso"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to deceive using a disguise — see also mislead",
"word": "engañar"
}
],
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}
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