Word Finder - bluff

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An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one's position in order to intimidate; braggadocio.

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That is only bluff, or a bluff.

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An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

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John's bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.

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The card game poker.

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One who bluffs; a bluffer.

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An excuse.

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To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is.

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John bluffed by betting without even a pair.

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(by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage.

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The government claims it will call an election if this bill does not pass. Is it truly ready to do so, or is it bluffing?

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To take advantage by bluffing.

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We bluffed our way past the guards.

The court-house and city hall are on the bluff overlooking Lake Erie.

Behind him, the bluff fell away to rocks far below.

She leaned back against the bluff, shivering.

Alluvial soil and bluff, the location of which has been indicated, are of primary agricultural importance.

A few minutes later he leaned back over the bluff and dropped a bottle of water into Alex's waiting hands.

She leaned back against the bluff for a moment, gathering strength to stretch farther.

He turned and leaned his back against the bluff as he looked up at Gerald.

I fell off Ed and I'm stuck on the side of a bluff where we were riding earlier.

Macaulay's bluff and strenuous character, his rhetorical style, his unphilosophical conception of history, were entirely out of harmony with Morison's prepossessions.

Why don't I pick you up tomorrow after work and take you to the bluff hole?

Bluff good-nature, a certain jocoseness, a humour pungent and ready, though somewhat coarse, a hot or even violent disposition, are characteristics of Mahratta chieftains.

To play blindman's bluff?

She had fallen off a bluff.

In a moment Alex slid over the edge of the bluff, hanging on to a rope.

He flipped water at her again and she turned away, swimming strongly for the bluff on the other side of the creek.

It has a picturesque situation, and is laid out over a high uneven bluff.

I was exploring and I fell off that bluff.

A vague trail led up the side of the mountain to the bluff.

Had he been stalking her the day she fell off the bluff?

It'd take a legion of liars to pull that big a bluff.

The trail they followed led around the base of a bluff.

There was a shorter way up the side of the bluff.

She led the way up the side of the mountain, following a switchback trail above a twenty-foot bluff.

Gerald would be back by now and he'd remember the bluff.

The city lies along a bluff about loo ft.

The site proving unfavourable, the colony was transferred to Twentyseven Mile Bluff, on the Mobile River, in 1702, and later to Mobile (1710).

Antigonus Gonatas, bluff soldier-spirit that he was, heard the Stoic philosophers gladly, and, though he failed to induce Zeno to come to Macedonia, persuaded Zeno's disciple, Persaeus of Citium, to enter his service.

Early in 1853 the Russian army was mobilized, and Prince Menshikov, a bluff soldier devoted to the interests of Orthodoxy and tsardom, was sent to present the emperor's ultimatum at Constantinople.

The state capitol, an imposing structure built on a bluff above the river, was built in1838-1842and enlarged in 1887-1888; it was first occupied in 1840 by the legislature, which previously had met (after 1837) in the county court house.

The southern entrance to Durban harbour is marked by a bold bluff, the Bluff of Natal, which is 250 ft.

Opposite the Bluff a low sandy spit called the Point forms the northern entrance to the harbour.

Vasco da Gama on his voyage to India sighted the bluff at the entrance to the bay now forming the harbour of Durban on Christmas Day 1497 and named the country Terra Natalis.

The ascent of the Sadlen or the Tyven in the neighbourhood is usually undertaken by travellers for the view of the barren, snow-clad Arctic landscape, the bluff indented coast, and the vast expanse of the Arctic Ocean.

The city has many beautiful parks and squares, the most picturesque of which is Juneau Park, along the lake bluff.

Cottonwoods flourish along the Little Missouri river, and in sheltered ravines grow stunted junipers and cedars, which seldom rise above the crest of some protecting bluff.

Lee in West Virginia, which ended in the withdrawal of the Confederates, and a few combats on the Potomac (Ball's Bluff or Leesburg, October 21; Dranesville, December 20), brought to a close the first campaign in the east.

The river is rarely navigable above Fort Smith, and during a considerable part of the year not above Pine Bluff.

In 1740-1745 a fortification called Nuestra Senora de los Angeles was erected at the entrance; it is still standing, on a steep bluff overlooking the sea, and is one of the most picturesque of the old fortifications of the island.

Along the bottom of the ravine runs the river Wagura, a mountain stream, which forces its way into the valley over a bluff on the east, and forms in its descent a beautiful waterfall, or rather series of waterfalls, 200 ft.

In the city are two sanitariums. The city has two parks (one, Ethan Allen Park, is on a bluff in the north-west part of the city, and commands a fine view) and four cemeteries; in Green Mount Cemetery, which overlooks the Winooski valley, is a monument over the grave of Ethan Allen, who lived in Burlington from 1778 until his death.

It has an active river trade with St Louis, Memphis and New Orleans, and five railway outlets - the Missouri Pacific and its branch, the Pine Bluff & Western, and the St Louis South-Western and its two branches, the Pine Bluff Arkansas River and the Aitheimer.

Pine Bluff has shops of the St Louis South-Western railway.

Bluff Harbour is the port of call and departure for steamers for Melbourne and Hobart.

In 1905-1906 there were 497 students in the college of liberal arts, sciences and engineering, 548 in the preparatory school and 26 in the conservatory of music and arts, all in Fayetteville; 171 in the medical school and 46 in the law school in Little Rock; and 240 in the branch normal college at Pine Bluff.

It is most picturesquely situated on a high bluff or peninsula, round the base of which flows the river Aar, thus completely cutting off the old town, save to the west.

Thus, at Santa Fe, in the north central part of the state, the elevation is 7013 ft.; at Raton, in the N.E., 6400 ft.; at Las Cruces, in the extreme S., 3570 ft.; and at Red Bluff, in the extreme S.E., 2876 ft.

The city lies on the river bluff, secure against the highest floods.

The surrounding bluff and alluvial country is very rich.

On the 6th of August 1772 Toll succeeded, by sheer bluff, in winning the fortress of Kristianstad.

Columbia is picturesquely situated on the level top of a bluff overlooking the Congaree, which falls about 36 ft.