bluff

adjabrupt
nounboast; deceit
nounprecipice
verbdeceive

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adj abrupt

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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.

Yesterday, when I took her part way up the bluff, she acted almost human.

Well, he'll see then that this kind of thing was all show-off, and bluff, won't he?

Then he resumed his course and trotted on along the base of the bluff.

And again to me he threw out, "Don't you let 'em bluff you, Bill!"

Slowly the glowing light vanished behind a bluff of woodland.

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