プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
ほおかぶり【頬▲被り】
&fRoman1;〔頭からほおにかけて覆うこと〕ほおかぶりする cover [wrap] one's head and cheeks ((with a towel))
農夫は寒風の中をほおかぶりして働いていた
The farmer was working in the biting wind, his face partially covered with a kerchief.
&fRoman2;〔知らぬふりをすること〕
彼は麻薬密輸ルートを知っているのにほおかぶりしていた
Even though he knew how the drugs were being smuggled, he 「pretended not to know [《文》 feigned ignorance/《口》 played dumb].
彼は友人の窮状にほおかぶりしとおした
He kept his eyes shut [closed] to his friend's plight.／He turned a 「blind eye [deaf ear] to his friend's predicament.