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    hoodwink

    hoodwink - Dictionary definition and meaning for word hoodwink

    Definition
    (verb) influence by slyness
    Synonyms : beguile , juggle
    Definition
    (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
    Example Sentence
    • He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for hoodwink

you WINK under the HOOD of your jacket. To deceive what you are doing

remember the way the wolf hoodwinked red riding hood

hoodwink->a person drops INK on the precious WOOD.so he tells you a story and DECEIVES you..

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food mein wine ... mila kar deceive kar diya

Someone comes to you in winter and ask you for a k(c)oat, and you do had..hood to him..deceive him, delude him, So HoodWinK

Hood~criminal: a criminal deceives oder ppl..

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