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Hoodwink vs Lure - What's the difference?

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Hoodwink is a related term of lure.


As verbs the difference between hoodwink and lure

is that hoodwink is (archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold while lure is to attract by temptation etc; to entice.

As a noun lure is

something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.

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.

    lure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
  • (Milton)
  • (fishing) An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish.
  • A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk.
  • * 1594 , , IV. i. 178:
  • My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, / And till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, / For then she never looks upon her lure .
  • A velvet smoothing brush.
  • (Knight)

    Verb

    (lur)
  • To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
  • To recall a hawk with a lure.
  • Anagrams

    * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

  • deceive, trick
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