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- Dictionarybluff/blʌf/
noun
- 1. a steep cliff, bank, or promontory.
- 2. a grove or clump of trees. Canadian
adjective
- 1. (of a cliff or a ship's bows) having a vertical or steep broad front.
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BLUFF definition: 1. to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you…. Learn more.
The meaning of BLUFF is having a broad flattened front. How to use bluff in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Bluff.
If you bluff, you try to make someone believe that you will do something although you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it. Either side, or both, could be bluffing.
Bluff can mean a high cliff, or it can describe a person who is abrupt in manner. The most common usage of bluff is as a verb meaning to pretend. If you bluff at cards, you are pretending to have a better hand than you do.
What does bluff mean? Bluff describes someone or something that is blunt or frank in a good-natured way. Someone who talks in a bluff manner says things directly but not hurtfully.
BLUFF meaning: 1. to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you…. Learn more.
1. To engage in a false display of confidence or aggression in order to deceive or intimidate someone: The management debated if there would really be a strike or if the union was bluffing. 2. To make a display of aggression, as by charging or baring the teeth, as a means of intimidating another animal. 3.
noun. /blʌf/ Idioms. [uncountable, countable] an attempt to trick somebody by making them believe that you will do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you know something when you do not, in fact, know it. It was just a game of bluff. He said he would resign if he didn't get more money, but it was only a bluff.
bluff (something) to try to make somebody believe that you will do something that you do not really intend to do, or that you know something that you do not really know I don't think he'll shoot—I think he's just bluffing.
BLUFF definition: 1. to pretend you will do something or that you have knowledge, in order to force someone to do…. Learn more.
