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- Proto-GermanicHoodwink is a compound of hood and wink, two elements with roots in Proto-Germanic and which are still very much in use today1. The verb hoodwink means to deceive or fool someone, and it comes from the obsolete meaning of wink, which during the 1500s meant to shut both eyes firmly2. The word hoodwink was used to describe a highwayman who placed a hood over a victim’s eyes to effectively close them, and soon it came to mean “to dupe”2.Learn more:✕This summary was generated using AI based on multiple online sources. To view the original source information, use the "Learn more" links.To hoodwink someone is to deceive or fool them, and the word has a rather straightforward etymology, although the meaning of wink has changed over the centuries, and that can confuse present-day speakers. Hoodwink is a compound of hood + wink, two elements with roots in Proto-Germanic and which are still very much in use today.www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hoodwink“Hoodwink” reflects an obsolete meaning of “wink.” Today, “to wink” means to close one eye briefly, but during the 1500s it meant to shut both eyes firmly. So a highwayman who placed a hood over a victim’s eyes to effectively close them, was said to “hoodwink” his prey, and soon “hoodwink” came to mean “to dupe.”www.courant.com/2015/07/29/how-did-we-get-bam…
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