bluffverb [ I or T ]
uk/blʌf/us/blʌf/to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else:
If you bluff your way into or out of a situation, you get yourself into or out of it by deceiving people:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- put sth on
- quack
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bluffnoun
uk/blʌf/us/blʌf/bluff noun (PRETEND)
[ C or U ] an attempt to bluff:
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Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- put sth on
- quack
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bluff noun (CLIFF)
[ C ] a cliff or very steep bank
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Geography: banks & embankments
- bank
- dune
- embankment
- hummock
- levee
- mound
- riverbank
- riverine
- riverside
- sandbank
- sandbar
- shoal
- snow bank
- terraced
bluffadjective
uk/blʌf/us/blʌf/direct or too honest, often in a way that people find rude:
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Blunt and direct in speech & behaviour
- baldly
- blunt
- bluntly
- brusque
- brutal
- forward
- frank
- in a word idiom
- in the raw idiom
- man-to-man
- mince
- not mince (your) words idiom
- pull
- raw
- shoot from the hip idiom
- straight
- term
- terse
- unvarnished
- woman-to-woman
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