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Synonyms for bluff
| Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
| Spell : bluhf |
| Phonetic Transcription : blʌf |
Top 10 synonyms for bluff Other synonyms for the word bluff
- affect
- bank
- barefaced
- bearish
- beguile
- betray
- blunt
- bluster
- blustering
- braggadocio
- bragging
- bravado
- breviloquent
- brief
- brusque
- bunco
- candid
- con
- counterfeit
- crusty
- curt
- deception
- defraud
- delusion
- direct
- double-cross
- downright
- escarpment
- facade
- fake
- fake out
- false colors
- false front
- feign
- feint
- fool
- forthright
- frank
- fraud
- front
- gruff
- headland
- hearty
- honest
- humbug
- illude
- jive
- jiving
- juggle
- laconic
- lie
- mislead
- mountain
- no-nonsense
- open
- outspoken
- peak
- plain-spoken
- pretense
- pretext
- psych out
- put on
- rock
- rough
- rude
- short
- short-spoken
- show
- shuck
- simulate
- sincere
- snippety
- snippy
- snow
- stall
- straightforward
- tactless
- take in
- tart
- terse
- trick
- unceremonious
Définition of bluff
Origin :- 1839, American English, poker term, perhaps from Dutch bluffen "to brag, boast," or verbluffen "to baffle, mislead." An identical word meant "blindfold, hoodwink" in 1670s, but the sense evolution and connection are unclear; OED calls it "one of the numerous cant terms ... which arose between the Restoration and the reign of Queen Anne." Extended or figurative sense by 1854. Related: Bluffed; bluffing.
- adj abrupt
- noun boast; deceit
- noun precipice
- verb deceive
- In short, though you can intimidate him, you cannot bluff him.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
- They ran the herds into a piskunebelow a bluff, over which they rushed and were killed.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- I saw it all from the bluff, and I know the horse turned over upon you.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- At the door she met a bluff, big man, gross from head to foot.
- Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
- "The place ought to be worth thirty thousand," he said, for a bluff.
- Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells
- Yesterday, when I took her part way up the bluff, she acted almost human.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- Well, he'll see then that this kind of thing was all show-off, and bluff, won't he?
- Extract from : « Alice Adams » by Booth Tarkington
- Then he resumed his course and trotted on along the base of the bluff.
- Extract from : « White Fang » by Jack London
- And again to me he threw out, "Don't you let 'em bluff you, Bill!"
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Slowly the glowing light vanished behind a bluff of woodland.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
Antonyms for bluff
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