The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hoodman \Hood"man\, n.
The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind.
[Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) The blindfolded player in the game of hoodman-blind, or blind man's buff.
Usage examples of "hoodman".
After that, those children who had not been sick over their dinner played Hoodman Blind and other appropriate games, while the young men and maidens danced morris dances in the middle, the tables having been cleared away.
Playing hoodman blind in and out of a hundred stalls, and all crowded with folk buying and selling, that’s not for me.
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.