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Hoodwink vs Hoax - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between hoodwink and hoax

is that hoodwink is to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold while hoax is to deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam.

As a noun hoax is

anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

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.

    hoax

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To deceive (someone) by making them believe something which has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. (scam)

    • Derived terms

    * hoaxer * hoaxster (rare)

    Noun

    (es)
  • Anything deliberately intended to deceive or trick.

    • Synonyms

    * (deliberately false story or report) canard

    Derived terms

    * (deliberately false story or report) hoaxical, Hoaxocaust