bluffern.
2. One who bluffs at poker, etc. Originally U.S.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun]
shondc725
faitoura1340
fob1393
trumper?c1450
feature14..
chuffera1500
prowler1519
truphane1568
cozener1575
cogger1580
pretender1583
impostor1586
mountebank1589
sycophant?1589
foolmonger1593
affronter1598
assumer1600
knight (also lord, man, etc.) of gingerbread1602
pettifogger1602
budgeter1603
quacksalver1611
empiric1614
putter-off?1615
quack1638
stafador1638
saltimbanco1646
adventurer1648
fourbe1668
shammer1677
imposer1678
charlatana1680
sham1683
cheat1687
hocus1692
gull1699
shamster1716
coal-blower1720
humbugger1752
gagger1781
fudge1794
humbug1804
potwalloper1820
twister1834
jackleg1844
fraud1850
bunyip1852
empiricist1854
Bayswater Captain1880
bluffer1888
putter-down1906
quandong1939
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > players > type of player
age1843
ante man1851
ante1853
straddler1863
bluffer1888
sandbagger1940
chip leader1985
1888 Detroit Free Press 5 May (Farmer) Is Uncle Sam a bluffer?
1891 ‘L. Hoffmann’ Cycl. Card & Table Games 197 [Poker] Unless E has the reputation (a very undesirable one) of a habitual bluffer, B will probably begin to feel alarmed.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 24 Sept. 2/1 The ‘bluffer’, she who trades on the gilded European's illusion that all American girls are heiresses, and catches him under this false pretence, only to discover that she has fallen into the hands of a male ‘bluffer’ whose pretensions are equally baseless.
1895 C. King Fort Frayne ii. 24 The Eleventh..had surrounded and disarmed Tall Bull's little band of ugly ‘bluffers’.
1946 Sci. News Let. 23 Mar. 188/1 The puff adder..is one of the world's biggest bluffers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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