hoodwink

Other forms of hoodwink

past tense

hoodwinked·

present participle

hoodwinking·

third person

hoodwinks·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoodwink

What does hoodwink mean?

hoodwink means "influence by slyness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoodwink?

hoodwink has 2 syllables: hood-wink. The stress falls on "hood". In IPA it is /ˈhʊˌdwɪŋk/.

What is another word for hoodwink?

Close synonyms include juggle, beguile, bamboozle, snow, pull the wool over someone's eyes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoodwink a common word?

hoodwink is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.