单词 | bluff |
释义 | verb | noun | adjective bluffbluff1 /blʌf/ verb [intransitive, transitive] 1to pretend something, especially to get what you want when you are in a difficult or dangerous situation: He’s bluffing. He’ll never do it.bluff your way into/out of/through etc. He used a false ID to bluff his way onto the ship.bluff somebody into doing something Giulio bluffed the guards into letting him in.2to pretend you have better cards than you really do in a game of poker verb | noun | adjective bluffbluff2 noun 1[countable, uncountable] an attempt to deceive someone by making him or her think you will do something when you do not intend to do it: Johnson said the threats were pure bluff.2call somebody’s bluff to tell someone to do what he or she is threatening to do, because you do not believe he or she will really do it3[countable] earth science, geography a very steep cliff or slope with a flat top verb | noun | adjective bluffbluff3 adjective a bluff person, usually a man, behaves in a loud happy way but does not always consider how other people feel—bluffly adverb—bluffness noun [uncountable] |
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