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Rook vs Hoodwink - What's the difference?

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Rook is a related term of hoodwink.


As a noun rook

is skirt.

As a verb hoodwink is

(archaic) to cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.

rook

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
  • * Pennant
    • The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
  • A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
    • (Wycherley)
  • (British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  • A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
    • Synonyms
    * (swindler) swindler, cheat
    Hypernyms
    * (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecracker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheat or swindle.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
    • Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
    Synonyms
    * (sense) cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) roc, ultimately from (etyl) . Compare (roc).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
  • (rare) A castle or other fortification.
    • Synonyms
    * (chesspiece) castle
    See also
    * *
    See also
    * squab

    Etymology 3

    From rookie .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball, slang) A rookie.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • mist; fog; roke

    • Etymology 5

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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.