Definitions for Bluffs

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Bluffs bluff

Spelling: [bluhf]

IPA: /blʌf/

Bluffs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in Bluffs (bfflsu).

Definitions for Bluffs

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 Bluffs

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

Examples for Bluffs

He met a young man on the train, papa, who came from Chicago to the bluffs with him.

But in the Gould's bluffs settlement this belief was scoffed at.

Contentment for him was apparently right there at Gould's bluffs and nowhere else.

Banewl, from 1999, is an amazing 63-minute contemplation of a solar eclipse, as watched among cows on the bluffs of Cornwall.

He drifted slowly on until the town and the bluffs sank in the darkness.

Crowds of weird-like savages would often be collected on the bluffs, watching the appalling phenomenon of the passing steamer.

About nine o'clock, some Indians, a few only (as usual), were seen on the bluffs.

Hills and vales, bluffs and ravines, were continually presented in successions of sublimity and beauty which charmed the eye.

They covered the low ground with warehouses, and the bluffs with stores and residences.

That motto's only one of Colonel Sterett's bluffs, one of his witticisms that a-way.