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    To bluff is to pretend you are stronger, braver, or more sure of something than you really are, usually to make someone back down. It comes from card games like poker, where a player might act very confident about a bad hand just to scare the other players into giving up. People use it outside of cards too — "I don't think he'll really quit his job, he's just bluffing." As a noun, a bluff is that act of pretending, and "to call someone's bluff" means to challenge them, forcing them to prove they meant it.

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Bluffname

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A place in the United States:

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    A group of suburbs in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

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    A rural town in the Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.

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    A town in Southland, New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.

    • Former name: Campbelltown
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    A surname.

bluffnoun詞源 1/blʌf/

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    An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.

    • That is only bluff, or That is only a bluff.
    • "That's enough," announced Joolby with decision. "You've put up all the bluff you know, Carrados, and we've got you dog-beaten. […]"
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    card-gamespokerAn attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

    • John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.
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    datedThe card game poker.

    • BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]
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    One who bluffs; a bluffer.

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    datedslangPretense, excuse.

bluffverb詞源 1/blʌf/

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    card-gamespokerTo make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.

    • John bluffed by betting without even a pair.
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    To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate or gain some advantage.

    • The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?
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    To perform or achieve by bluffing.

    • We bluffed our way past the guards.
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    To give false information intentionally, to lie (to someone), to deceive; to put on an act.

    • Vinod, you want to bluff the doctor, your mother, father, uncle, auntie, CMPB all that I don't care. But you cannot bluff me.

bluffnoun詞源 2/blʌf/

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    A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.

    • In the sketch (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.
    • It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.
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    A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.

bluffadj詞源 2/blʌf/

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    Having a broad, flattened front.

    • the bluff bows of a ship
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    Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.

    • a bluff or bold shore
    • Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect.
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    Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

    • […] he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.
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    Roughly frank and hearty in one's manners.

    • a bluff answer
    • a bluff manner of talking

bluffverb詞源 3/blʌf/

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    To fluff, puff or swell up.

    • Not a sparrow on the cottage thatch, where the chimney's warmth had thawed the snow, that did not seem to have his great coat on, so bluffed out were the feathers, and not a frozen-out duck who did not glance up at the icicles hanging to the roof, and quack a prayer for rain.
    • [W]hen the bare boughs of a tree intervened between her and the rising bright but deep red sun, frosted as the twigs were, on them sat a merry flock of sparrows, the feathers on their breasts bluffed out, as if they had donned warm winter spencers to shield them from the biting blast.

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