Definition of Bluff

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Definition of Bluff

Bluff

Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.

Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.

Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.

Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.

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

An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.

A game at cards; poker.

To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.

To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one's strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.

To act as in the game of bluff.

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Bluff Quotations

The whole world is run on bluff.
Marcus Garvey

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
Ambrose Bierce

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
Jean Baudrillard

Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull.
Jim Fowler

It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.
Knute Nelson

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
David Seabury

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
William McFee

Bluff Translations

bluff in German is Bluff, rauh aber herzlich, Felsvorsprung, Kliff
bluff in Norwegian is barsk, steil, bratt
bluff in Swedish is bluff

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