Definitions for bluff

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Spelling: [bluhf]

IPA: /blʌf/

Bluff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in bluff (bfflu).

Definitions for bluff

noun

1. a cliff, headland, or hill with a broad, steep face.
2. North Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. a clump or grove of trees on a prairie or other generally treeless area.
3. an act or instance or the practice of bluffing:
4. a person who bluffs; bluffer:

Idioms

1. call someone's bluff, to expose a person's deception; challenge someone to carry out a threat:

adjective

1. good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken:
2. presenting a bold and nearly perpendicular front, as a coastline:
3. Nautical. (of the bow of a vessel) having a full, blunt form.

verb (used with object)

1. to mislead by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like:
2. to gain by bluffing:
3. Poker. to deceive by a show of confidence in the strength of one's cards.

verb (used without object)

1. to mislead someone by presenting a bold, strong, or self-confident front:

Origin of bluff

1620-30; perhaps Middle Low German blaff smooth, even, or Middle Dutch blaf broad, flat

Examples for bluff

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

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

On a bluff overlooking the sea, he pitched a tent and lived there for the next year in near total seclusion.

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

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

He was bluff, inspirational to the men, a brilliant tactician.

We end the tour on a bluff overlooking a mine in the distance.

Ten days later, when the dust had settled, MSF President Joanne Liu called their bluff.

It is not easy work, but it calls the bluff of those who would say “we have to take scripture seriously.”

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