buffalo vs hoodwink

buffalo

verb
  • To outwit, confuse, deceive, or intimidate. 

  • To hunt buffalo. 

noun
  • A related North American animal, the American bison, Bison bison. 

  • The buffalo fish (Ictiobus spp.). 

  • Any of the Old World mammals of the family Bovidae, such as the Cape buffalo, Syncerus caffer, or the water buffalo Bubalus bubalis. 

  • A nickel. 

hoodwink

verb
  • To deceive using a disguise; to bewile, dupe, mislead. 

noun
  • An act of hiding from sight, or something that cloaks or hides another thing from view. 

How often have the words buffalo and hoodwink occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )