bluffingn.

Etymology: < bluff v.¹ 2, 3Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbluffing.

The action of using bluff; also attributive or as participle adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery

trifling?a1400

bantering1660

hoaxing1808

mystifyingc1827

bluffing1850

four-flushing1901

spoofing1920

shenaniganning1924

1850 Congress. Globe 14 May App. 606/1 I cannot look upon the effort of Texas in any other light than a bluffing, brow-beating game.

c1850 Southern Sketches 137 (Bartlett 1859) Jim..tried the bluffing system.

1871 Daily News 4 Jan. The great point..is the shutting in of Paris, and the ‘bluffing off’ of France.

1948 Redbook (U.S.) Mar. 23/1 Andy was a blustering, bluffing, not too straitlaced fellow.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	bluffing
释义	bluffingn. Etymology: < bluff v.¹ 2, 3Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbluffing. The action of using bluff; also attributive or as participle adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > [adjective] > employing trickery trifling?a1400 bantering1660 hoaxing1808 mystifyingc1827 bluffing1850 four-flushing1901 spoofing1920 shenaniganning1924 1850 Congress. Globe 14 May App. 606/1 I cannot look upon the effort of Texas in any other light than a bluffing, brow-beating game. c1850 Southern Sketches 137 (Bartlett 1859) Jim..tried the bluffing system. 1871 Daily News 4 Jan. The great point..is the shutting in of Paris, and the ‘bluffing off’ of France. 1948 Redbook (U.S.) Mar. 23/1 Andy was a blustering, bluffing, not too straitlaced fellow. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1850
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