Bluff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLUFF in dictionary:

VERB:
• to deceive
• survive a difficult situation by maintaining a pretence
• pretend to be confident in order to influence (someone)
• To deter (an opponent) from taking the risk of betting on his hand of cards, as the bluffer does by betting heavily on his own hand although it may be of less value.
• To frighten or deter from accomplishing a purpose by making a show of confidence in one\'s strength or resources; as, he bluffed me off.
• To act as in the game of bluff.
• deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
• frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is
• try to deceive someone as to one's abilities or intentions
NOUN:
• an attempt to deceive someone into believing that one can or is going to do something
• a steep cliff, bank, or promontory.
• a grove or clump of trees.
• A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
• An act of bluffing; an expression of self-confidence for the purpose of intimidation; braggadocio; as, that is only bluff, or a bluff.
• A game at cards; poker.
• a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion)
• pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
• the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
• act of bluffing
ADJECTIVE:
• rough and hearty
• direct in speech or behaviour but in a good-natured way
• Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship.
• Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
• Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
• Abrupt; roughly frank; unceremonious; blunt; brusque; as, a bluff answer; a bluff manner of talking; a bluff sea captain.
• very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
• bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured
• good-naturedly frank and hearty
• (of a cliff or a ship's bows) having a vertical or steep broad front.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• having a broad front
• to mislead

Words related to BLUFF

bluffable19 bluffed16 bluffer15 bluffers16 bluffest16 bluffing17 bluffly18 bluffness17 bluffnesses19 bluffs14

Words that contain BLUFF

bluffs14 bluffed16 bluffer15 bluffly18 bluffers16 bluffest16 bluffing17 outbluff16 bluffable19 bluffness17 outbluffs17 outbluffed19 bluffnesses19 outbluffing20 counterbluff22 counterbluffs23

How to use BLUFF in a sentence

• The woods in front rose in a high bluff, and down a little ravine a burn trickled.
• West knew Stony Bunker well by reason of former meetings, and he knew equally well what amount of swing was necessary to land just over the hazard, but well short of the bluff.
• What with the walk over the bluff and the forest, having no sleep the night before, and the bother and trouble of it all, I was pretty well used up.
• Gillem fortified his camp at the foot of the bluff, and surrounded it with a rock wall.
• He was quite safe where he was, for the bluff protected him from stray Turkish bullets.
• The first work I ever done was sawmilling at Pine Bluff.
• He is very bluff in manner, but he is really the kindest person.
• At the bluff of the shrubbery where he had first seen Mary pass out of sight he heard a step, but it was not that sharp, steady step he had learnt to know so well.
• We went about a mile further and encamped under a high bluff on the right opposite to a cliff of rocks, having made sixteen miles.
• In dead silence the little command moved slowly away, followed by the eyes of half the garrison on the bluff.
• He went to San Francisco and prepared for a run down the Sacramento from Red Bluff, four-hundred and fifty miles.
• A fire trap had been set at the far side of the great bluff, and only the hither side remained open to those seeking shelter within it.
• This was a time when his laziness cost him dearly, he admitted to himself, as he watched Bluff lift a struggling bass into the boat, and then heard him give a yell of triumph.
• Bluff and Jerry had found some dead leaves behind a log, and here they decided to settle down.
• Jerry and Bluff could be heard talking from time to time.
• Then as Bluff and Jerry began to manifest signs of restlessness Frank gave the order to move along once more.
• When he dropped his end of the stretcher Bluff discovered a stout club lying on the ground.
• From the top of the bluff he saw down into the village of the Delawares.
• The soldiers and the Indians lounged around on the grass and walked to and fro on the bluff.
• The governor, a bluff old soldier, was thereupon summoned to Paris to present his side of the whole affair.
• Helene made a bluff at having one, too, though she did not seem able to give names or dates.
• Versalles is on a bluff of the harbor, and its houses are situated, for the most part, from 15 to 40 feet above the sea.
• There was a guard at the top of the bluff, but the officer in command was a coward and ran away.
• I took my platoon back to the Bluff, dismissed it, and going up to my dug-out door, stood there for a moment thinking.
• However, as Bluff would say, the proof of the pudding lies in the eating of it, and he certainly did manage to creep up quite close to the feeding elk.
• Like many another, more experienced in the ways of the woods than himself, Bluff almost forgot that he had other charges in his gun.

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