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Archive for June, 2008

12 Jun

Cliches: Hoodwink, and Pull the Wool Over His Eyes

As birthday and other family get-together opportunities come up, we get a kick out of playing historical games together.  Recently, while explaining a couple of old English games that would have been familiar to the Mayflower pilgrims (1620), husband Dave asked me if the word “hoodwinked” could have come from one of the games called Hoodman’s Blind.  It seemed a slight possibility, and we were […]

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