different between dodge vs hoodwink

English

Etymology

Uncertain, but possibly from Old English dydrian, by way of dialectal dodd or dodder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?d?/

• Rhymes: -?d?

Verb

dodge (third-person singular simple present dodges, present participle dodging, simple past and past participle dodged)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way.

   He dodged traffic crossing the street.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To avoid; to sidestep.

   The politician dodged the question with a meaningless reply.
3. (archaic) To go hither and thither.
4. (photography, videography) To decrease the exposure for certain areas of an image in order to make them darker (compare burn).
5. (transitive) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.7:

     “I had a notion he was dodging me all the way I came, for I saw him just behind me, turn which way I would.”

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! / And still it neared and neared: / As if it dodged a water-sprite, / It plunged and tacked and veered.
6. (transitive, intransitive, dated) To trick somebody.

Synonyms

• (to avoid): duck, evade, fudge, skirt, shun

Derived terms

• dodge a bullet
• dodger
• dodgy

Translations

Noun

dodge (plural dodges)

1. An act of dodging.
2. A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
   • 1869, Punch (volume 57, page 257)

     “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
3. (slang) A line of work.
   • 1992, Time (volume 140, issues 1-9, page 74)

     In the marketing dodge, that is known as rub-off.

   • 2009, Chris Knopf, Head Wounds (page 233)

     Through a series of unconventional circumstances, some my fault, Jackie had found herself working both civil and criminal sides of the real estate dodge, which put her among a rare breed of attorney […]

Adjective

dodge (comparative more dodge, superlative most dodge)

1. (Australia) dodgy

English

Etymology

The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) +? wink (“to close one’s eyes”).

The noun is derived from the verb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?dw??k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?d?w??k/
• Hyphenation: hood?wink

Verb

hoodwink (third-person singular simple present hoodwinks, present participle hoodwinking, simple past and past participle hoodwinked)

1. (transitive, archaic) To cover the eyes with, or as if with, a hood; to blindfold. [from mid 16th c.]
2. (transitive, figuratively)
   1. To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead.
   2. (archaic) To hide or obscure.
3. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To close the eyes.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• hoodwinkable
• hoodwinked (adjective)
• hoodwinker
• hoodwinking (noun)

Translations

Noun

hoodwink (countable and uncountable, plural hoodwinks)

1. (countable) An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view.
2. (Britain, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.

   Synonym: (obsolete) hoodman-blind

Translations

References

Further reading

• hoodwink (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia