Hoodwink vs Lure - What's the difference?
hoodwink | lure | Related terms |
(archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
* , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.81:
To deceive or trick.
Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure.
(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:
A velvet smoothing brush.
To attract by temptation etc.; to entice.
To recall a hawk with a lure.
deceive, trick
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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
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.
lure
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Milton)
- 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 .
- (Knight)