Hoodwinked vs Bamboozled - What's the difference?
hoodwinked | bamboozled |
(hoodwink)
(archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
To deceive or trick.
(bamboozle)
(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.”
As verbs the difference between hoodwinked and bamboozled
is that hoodwinked is past tense of hoodwink while bamboozled is past tense of bamboozle.hoodwinked
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(wikipedia hoodwink)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
- I feel like the salesman hoodwinked me into buying right away.