bluff, blunt, brusque, curt, crusty, gruff mean abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner. bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness and unconventionality.

bluff noun [C] (CLIFF) (used in many names of places) a cliff or steep slope, often above a river: Council Bluffs, Iowa

Bluff can mean a high cliff, or it can describe a person who is abrupt in manner. The most common usage of bluff is as a verb meaning to pretend. If you bluff at cards, you are …

If you bluff, you try to make someone believe that you will do something although you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.

1. to mislead or intimidate by a display of strength, self-confidence, or the like. 2. to achieve by bluffing: to bluff one's way into a job. 3. to deceive (an opponent in poker) by betting heavily on …

Apr 26, 2024 · A bluff is a small, rounded cliff that usually overlooks a body of water, or where a body of water once stood. Sam's Throne, above, is a bluff in the Ozark Mountains in the U.S. …

Idioms call someone's bluff, to expose a person's deception; challenge someone to carry out a threat: He always said he would quit, so we finally called his bluff.

Having or showing a rough and blunt but not unkind manner: "the great big bluff guests who told bawdy jokes and got up early to watch the sun rise" (Erin McGraw).

Jan 2, 2026 · bluff (third-person singular simple present bluffs, present participle bluffing, simple past and past participle bluffed) (poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s …

BLUFF definition: good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken. See examples of bluff used in a sentence.