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What (who) is BLUFFNESS - definition
Bluffness
·noun The quality or state of being bluff.
bluff
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Bluffs; Bluff (disambiguation); The Bluff; The Bluff (disambiguation); Bluff (film)
I
n.
false threat
1) to call smb.'s bluff ('to challenge smb. to carry out a false threat')
2) to fall for smb.'s bluff (to be deceived by a false threat')
II
v.
1) (D; tr.) to bluff into; out of (they bluffed him into making concessions)
2) to be caught bluffing
bluff
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Bluffs; Bluff (disambiguation); The Bluff; The Bluff (disambiguation); Bluff (film)
(bluffs, bluffing, bluffed)
1.
A bluff is an attempt to make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it.
It is essential to build up the military option and show that this is not a bluff...
What we're at here is a game of bluff.
N-VAR
see also double bluff
2.
If you call someone's bluff, you tell them to do what they have been threatening to do, because you are sure that they will not really do it.
The Socialists have decided to call the opposition's bluff.
PHRASE: V inflects
3.
If you bluff, you make someone believe that you will do something when you do not really intend to do it, or that you know something when you do not really know it.
Either side, or both, could be bluffing...
In each case the hijackers bluffed the crew using fake grenades...
VERB: V, V n
