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Bamboozle vs Hoodwink - What's the difference?

bamboozle | hoodwink |

As verbs the difference between bamboozle and hoodwink

is that bamboozle is (informal) to con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone while hoodwink is (archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

bamboozle

English

Verb

(bamboozl)
  • (informal) To con, defraud, trick, to make a fool of, to humbug or impose on someone.
  • * 1851 ,
  • *:“Look here, friend,” said I, “if you have anything important to tell us, out with it; but if you are only trying to bamboozle us, you are mistaken in your game; that’s all I have to say.”

    • hoodwink

    English

    (wikipedia hoodwink)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
  • * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
    • Some there are, that through feare anticipate the hangmans hand; as he did, whose friends having obtained his pardon, and putting away the cloth wherewith he was hood-winkt , that he might heare it read, was found starke dead upon the scaffold, wounded only by the stroke of imagination.
  • To deceive or trick.
    • I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.