bluffing

Synonyms for bluffing

verb deceive

adjective. alleged; imaginary

noun. feigning

1845, in the poker sense, verbal noun from bluff (v.).

You fancy a chap's bluffing when he's doing nothing of the sort.

I think he saw that I meant exactly what I said—and I was not bluffing.

They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.

Not bluffing exactly, either, because they'll go through with it as long as they last.

Come right on to the shore, then, and don't try any bluffing.

When I saw him he was on the muelle, surrounded by an army of bluffing cargadores.

Archer and Benson were not bluffing to put him off the scent.

I suspected he was bluffing; still it was possible he wasnt.

Was Tinhorn bluffing or did he have another queen in the “hole”?

Smith believed he was bluffing, but there was an equal chance that he was not.