Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The person blindfolded in the game of hoodman-blind, now called blindman's-buff.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.
Etymologies
- hood + man (Wiktionary)
Examples
“What devil was\'t that thus hath cozen\'d you at hoodman-blind?”
“Here were kept up the old games of hoodman blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles, steal the white loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon: the Yule clog and”
“Playing hoodman blind in and out of a hundred stalls, and all crowded with folk buying and selling, that's not for me.”
“But now the mirth and glee grow 'fast and furious,' for hoodman blind has imprisoned three or four of the youngest boys in”
“I can here hardly do more than allude to the many games {51} that were traditional in England at Christmas -- hoodman-blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles, steal the white loaf, snap-dragon, and the rest.”
“A new intercalation is (in the first quarto there is no vestige of it), that Hamlet reproaches his mother with having degraded 'sweet religion' to 'a rhapsody of words; 'that he says' the Devil hath conquered her at hoodman blind; 'that she should confess herself to Heaven, and' assume”
“Humming a gay measure, jubilant at the prospect of seeing himself so amply avenged, Gonzaga passed down and out into the castle gardens to join the ladies in their merry-making over a game of hoodman blind.”
“I launched myself suddenly into the vacancy before me, and went like hoodman blind with arms outstretched towards the railing.”
“If the tale were to be published, the fun would lie, not in attempting to mystify the reader, but in watching with him the mystification of the hero, -- in showing how he played at hoodman-blind with his destiny, and how surprised he was, when, the bandage stripped from his eyes, he saw whom he had caught.”
“Then came supper, and the evening closed with hot cockles and blind-hoodman -- the latter being blindman's buff.”
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