bluff
suomi-englanti sanakirjabluff englannista suomeksi
hämätä
bluffaus, hämäys
jyrkkä
bluffata
jyrkänne
bluffi
suorapuheinen
Substantiivi
bluff englanniksi
An act of bluffing; a false expression of the strength of one’s position in order to intimidate or deceive; braggadocio.
(ux)
An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.
The card game poker.
(quote-book)
One who bluffs; a (l).
To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s (l) is stronger than it is.
To frighten, deter, or deceive with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of (l) or (l) in order to (l) or gain some (l).
To perform or achieve by bluffing.
To give (l) (l) (l), to (l) (to someone), to (l); to put on an act.
A high, steep bank, for example by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face.
(quote-journal)
(senseid) A small wood or stand of trees, typically poplar or willow.
Having a broad, flattened front.
(co)
Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front.
1769, (w), "Côte en écore" (entry in ''An Universal Dictionary of the Marine'')
- a bluff or bold shore
{{quote-text|en|year=1845|author=Sylvester Judd|title=Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi
Surly; churlish; gruff; rough.
(RQ:Stevenson Treasure Island) he had a bluff, rough-and-ready face, all roughened and reddened and lined in his long travels.
(syn)
(RQ:Isaac Taylor Saturday Evening)
(quote-book), publishers, successors to (w),(nb...)|year=1866|volume=III|page=124|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=A-E5AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA124|oclc=800511811|passage=Not a sparrow on the cottage thatch, where the chimney's warmth had thawed the snow, that did not seem to have his great coat on, so bluffed out were the feathers, and not a frozen-out duck who did not glance up at the icicles hanging to the roof, and quack a prayer for rain.
(quote-book)|year=1870|volume=I|page=117|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3eEBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA117|oclc=21730127|passage=When the bare boughs of a tree intervened between her and the rising bright but deep red sun, frosted as the twigs were, on them sat a merry flock of sparrows, the feathers on their breasts bluffed out, as if they had donned warm winter spencers to shield them from the biting blast.
(l)
(l)
(l) (gloss)
(alt sp)
A (l) (q).
A (l).