bluff

adjabrupt

nounboast; deceit
nounprecipice
verbdeceive

Word Origin & History

1839, American English, poker term, perhaps from Dutch bluffen "to brag, boast," or verbluffen "to baffle, mislead." An identical word meant "blindfold, hoodwink" in 1670s, but the sense evolution and connection are unclear; OED calls it "one of the numerous cant terms ... which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne." Extended or figurative sense by 1854. Related: Bluffed; bluffing.

Example Sentences for bluff

In short, though you can intimidate him, you cannot bluff him.

They ran the herds into a piskunebelow a bluff, over which they rushed and were killed.

I saw it all from the bluff, and I know the horse turned over upon you.

At the door she met a bluff, big man, gross from head to foot.

"The place ought to be worth thirty thousand," he said, for a bluff.

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