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Mystify vs Hoodwink - What's the difference?

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Mystify is a related term of hoodwink.


As verbs the difference between mystify and hoodwink

is that mystify is to thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder while hoodwink is (archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

mystify

English

Verb

  • To thoroughly confuse, befuddle, or bewilder.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}

    Related terms

    * mysterious * mystery * mystic * mystical * mysticism * mystique

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    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.