Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
bluff
IPA transcription: [bl'ʌf]
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
bluff
Meaning:
a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
Synonyms:
bluff
Meaning:
pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; "his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted"
Usage examples
IN WHICH BLUFF IS TRUMPS.
Cargan had heard that bluff before.
'The old high-brow tried to bluff me.
Thornton's bluff, if bluff it was, had been called.
About twenty miles from Scott's Bluff stands old Chimney Rock.
"What 's the matter, little one?" asked the Squire in his kind, bluff voice.
He lives at my house, too--the white house you see over there on the bluff."
"Oh, that 's the idea, is it?" asked the big bluff Squire, forgetting his poetry.
"He ought never to have made a bluff of that sort; there were too many odds against him."
At the side farthest from the town, close under a bluff, there was an extensive marah, or sheepcot, ages old.