Hoodwink vs Beglammer - What's the difference?
hoodwink | beglammer |
(archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
To deceive or trick.
As verbs the difference between hoodwink and beglammer
is that hoodwink is (archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold while beglammer is to bewitch; deceive; hoodwink.hoodwink
English
(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.