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

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 a weak hand.

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.

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.

2) In terms of behaviour, a bluff refers to an act of deception or false display of confidence, typically used in games or strategic situations to trick or mislead someone into believing something other than the …

Some common synonyms of bluff are blunt, brusque, crusty, curt, and gruff. While all these words mean "abrupt and unceremonious in speech and manner," bluff connotes good-natured outspokenness …

BLUFF meaning: 1. to pretend you will do something or that you have knowledge, in order to force someone to do…. Learn more.

The Bluff Meat Supply/Mndeni Meat Group was founded in 1960 as a family run business. It has grown into an entity that has consistently been KwaZulu Natal’s favourite Family Butcher since its earliest …

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