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Bluff

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
blʌf

Definitions

  1. A town in Southland, New Zealand, the southernmost in the South Island, and seaport for the Southland region.
  2. An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
    countable, uncountable
  3. A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
  4. An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
    countable, uncountable
  5. A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
    Canadian-Prairies
  6. The card game poker.
    US, dated, uncountable
  7. One who bluffs; a bluffer.
    countable
  8. Pretense, excuse.
    countable, dated, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“That is only bluff, or That is only a bluff.”
“John’s bet⟳ was a bluff: he bet⟳ without even so much as a pair.”
“BLUFF OR POKER [title of a chapter]”
“In the sketch⟳ (which is taken about 75 Jovian days after that of the 2nd July) there is shown a dark copper-coloured streak along the southern margin of the south brown belt, butting on to a bluff-headed streak of cumulus cloud which may be the same remarkable bluff head noticed on July 2.”
“It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.”
“Bounded to the north and west by mountains and river, to the east by river alone, and to the south by high bluffs that mark⟳ the beginning of the loess country, it is a compact and easily defended territory hospitable only to nomads. Today these lands are divided between the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region and the Ning-hsia Hui Autonomous Region. Under the Republic the Ho-t’ao and Pao-t’ou plains were included in Sui-yuan province, and the Ning-hsia area in Ning-hsia province.”
“Situated on bluffs above the Huangpu, a tributary of the Yangtze, Shanghai—which means ‘above the sea’—is sinking.”
“Former name⟳: Campbelltown”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

bluff catcher bluff charge Bluffed Bluffer Bluffing Bluffly

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