(archaic) To cover the eyes with a hood; to blindfold.
1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 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.
